Neighborhood Quotes - Page 10

• I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Community, Brooklyn, Littles

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• I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.

  Trina Robbins

  Mother, Teenager, School

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.

  Steven M. Greer

  Nice, Life Changing, Boys

  "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

  Thom Yorke

  Sorry, Mexican, I'm Sorry

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• When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible.

  Rafe Esquith

  Country, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

  Robert Frost

  Kids, Cowboy, Intellectual

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• There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.

  Studs Terkel

  Dream, People, News

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.25, The New Press

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• I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Letting Go, Dog

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• I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

  Carrot Top

  Wall, College, People

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• I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  People, Giving, Age

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.

  Justin Theroux

  Boys, Funny Things, Childhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Dog, Children

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

  David Lee Roth

  Country, New York, Cowboy

  "David Lee Roth vents about Van Halen's future". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.usatoday.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

  Seth Godin

  Hard Work, Promise, World

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• You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

  Antonio Gates

  Tough

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• My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all) that existed up to and including the 1930s, when different classes lived all together in the same neighborhoods, and most businesses of any sort were mom-and-pop, and people and things had a local identity.

  Luc Sante

  Mom, New York, Class

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

  Atticus Shaffer

  Country, Redneck, Want

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• How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

  L. Tom Perry

  Encouragement, Integrity, Educational

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• BMX riding breaks down racial perceptions. Coming from New York City and being a BMX rider, that isn't something that's too common. I feel like for the longest time, I would ride through certain neighborhoods and people would call me a "white boy" because they associated white boys from California with BMX riding, and it bugs me so much because I'm completely not that. I completely don't fit that mold. It's really important for me to bring BMX riding to the masses and show people exactly what it is.

  Nigel Sylvester

  New York, Boys, Cities

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• I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Gone

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• If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

  Matt Chandler

  Coward, Gone, Beast

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• Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

  Alan Cranston

  Moving, Inflation, Expensive

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