Neighborhood Quotes - Page 9

• I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

  John Dewey

  Children, Real, Believe

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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• I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hollywood, Rich, Grew Up

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior
  judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  Nat Turner

  Youth, Judgment, Stealing

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Educational, Choices

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

  Mike Posner

  Country, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: ca.complex.com

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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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• Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

  Chris Rose

  Love Life, Creativity, Joy

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.

  Carol Browner

  Color, Class, Community

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• People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Complaining

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• The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

  Louise Lester

  Neighbor, Indifferent, Hostile

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• It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Drunk, Advice

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• Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Block, Sneakers, Sides

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• As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me wrong, I have zero regrets when it comes to the acting stuff. I think it's made me a better director.

  Coley Sohn

  Zero, Regret, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.

  Charles Burnett

  Growing Up, People, Southern

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Color, Perspective

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

  Ai Weiwei

  Keys, Hands, Walks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

  Don Rickles

  Kings, Kids, Comedian

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• If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Mind, Remember

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, genius.com.

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• I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Fun, Nice

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Years, Cities, Needs

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Europe, Support, Borders

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• I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

  Billy Crystal

  Baseball, Oklahoma, Mitzvah

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