Neighborhood Quotes - Page 19

• Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need, making sure that our neighborhoods are safe, making sure that the state of Texas recognizes that people from all walks of life have got a shot at the Texas dream but, most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Children, Organization

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• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

  Jami Attenberg

  America, Bookstores, Treasure

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• Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.

  Caterina Fake

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

  Kool G Rap

  Rap, Snow, Hip Hop

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• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Art, Reality, Analysis

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

  Ronnie Moran

  Reality, Roger, Should

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• This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.

  Bruce Karatz

  Reality, Vision, Together

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• But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.

  Mike Ertel

  Reality, People, Would Be

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• I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.

  Shailene Woodley

  Soccer, Growing Up, Fun

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

  Muhammad Ali

  Christian, Believe, Moving

  "The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam" by Jonathan Eig, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2017.

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• There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

  Bessie Smith

  Men, Nineteen, Fool

  Song: Dirty No-Gooder's Blues

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• Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

  Neal Stephenson

  Reality, Light, Special

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, October 27, 1994.

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• My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not know much about writing, I just knew that I liked to write my name everywhere I could in my neighborhood.

  KAWS

  Writing, School, Years

  Art Crimes Interview, www.graffiti.org. 1996.

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• A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.

  Charles Duhigg

  Strong, Ties, Giving

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• The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

  Jan Tschichold

  Book, Perfect, Designer

  Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers

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• Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Children, Educational

  "Education and the election: it's still all about the money" Lucy Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2016.

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• I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mean, Law, Police

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

  Gavin Newsom

  Home, Cities, San Francisco

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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• Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Teacher, Thinking, Library

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• By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Boys, Jumping

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• Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Chicago

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• As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors – in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.

  D. James Kennedy

  School, Government, Media

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• It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Wealth, Easier, Ifs

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1998). “The Millionaire Next Door”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

  Bill Schuette

  Cop, Violent, Beats

  "Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, Calls For 1,000 More Police Officers". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.

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