Neighborhood Quotes - Page 11

• Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods.

  Robert Higgs

  Children, Attitude, Government

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• Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.

  Tim Kaine

  Dream, Home, School

  "Kaine's two America's" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. August 28, 2008.

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• We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Home, People, Mazes

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  East London, Rose, Black

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• ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

  Douglas Coupland

  Mother, People, Hug

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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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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• I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

  Thom Yorke

  Party, Kids, Parent

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• St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.

  Andy Cohen

  School, Italian, Cheese

  "Andy Cohen Got the 411". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.bonappetit.com. May 16, 2012.

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• My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

  Ziggy Marley

  Country, Father, Poor Neighborhoods

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Feb 02, 2015

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• There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

  Bill Cosby

  People, Negativity, Drug

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• In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

  Bill Cosby

  Boys, Old Neighborhood, Pulse

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

  Eddie Murphy

  Doors, Answers

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!

  Bill Maher

  Moving, Kids, White

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". imdb.com. 2003.

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• I live in New York and there are a lot of famous... pizzerias in my neighborhood, it's really hard to find one that isn't famous. Which sucks sometimes, you know what I mean, sometimes I don't want all that glitz and glamour, I just want something delicious, you know? I don't need a celebrity in my mouth, Ray's Up And Coming Pizza would be fine.

  Demetri Martin

  New York, Mean, Want Something

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• We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Black And White, Rainbow, Poor

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.64, Zondervan

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• We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, School, Kids

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

  Berenice Abbott

  Girl, Art, Nice

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• Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Islands, Long

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• The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

  Carrot Top

  House, Towns, Watches

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• There's a lot of dudes in my neighborhood that have handlebar mustaches. Which is cool if you want to have a handlebar mustache but don't try to have a conversation with me like you don't have a handlebar mustache.

  Hannibal Buress

  Mustache, Trying, Want

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• When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Fireman, Adopted

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

  Bob Saget

  Squirrels, Yards, Way

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013

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• One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.

  Eugene Mirman

  Cities, Poor Neighborhoods, Detroit

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• I spent the day today at Brighton Beach, walking around. It's a Russian/Jewish neighborhood. And I was in a store and I saw a board game called 'Let My People Go,' based on the Jews' exodus from Egypt. I was like, 'Too soon.

  Eugene Mirman

  Beach, Games, Egypt

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• I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

  Eugene Mirman

  Believe, America, Detroit

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