Neighborhood Quotes - Page 33

• the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Design, Machines, Emptiness

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.61, University of Michigan Press

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• There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Two, House, Parent

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Memories, Eye

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Running, Thinking, Rocks

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• pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Evil, Looks

  Dean R. Koontz (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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• I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.

  Kristen Wiig

  Dad, Women, Tired

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• At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

  David Mamet

  School, Men, Law

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• When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

  Helen Mirren

  Hands, Guy, Age

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

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• Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Thinking, Space

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• The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Intelligent, Religion

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.105, Random House

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• It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Country

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2013). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Believe, Garden, Everyday

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• As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

  Ed Bradley

  Children, Book, Kids

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• And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Crazy, Stupid

  "Newt’s Law of Malevolence" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Queens, Moved

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• The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what is good in him rather than emphasizing what is bad. Talk about his goodness. Let the whole neighborhood know how nice and beautiful a boy he is. You may be able to shift his energy from the bad side to the good side, from the dark side to the lighted side, because you will make him aware that this is the way to get respect, this is the way to be honored. And you will prevent him from doing anything that makes him fall down in people's eyes.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

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• The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  Harry Browne

  Hurt, Responsibility, Gun

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• The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

  William Blackstone

  Art, Science, Branches

  Sir William Blackstone (1860). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.19

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• How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Country, School, Garden

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• Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Compassion

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• In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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