Suburbs Quotes - Page 6

• Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

  Tom Shales

  Home, Cities, Long

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• I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

  Bryan Brown

  Boys, Western, Sydney

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

  Jane Byrne

  Flight, Policy, Persons

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Construction Industry, Growth

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• My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

  Kid Cudi

  Growing Up, Home, Mean

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

  Stephen Collins

  New York, Born, Raised

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• I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

  Luc Ferrari

  Hate, Paris, Born

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• It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Science, Cities

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• And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

  Elton John

  Night, Men, Light

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• I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

  Daryl Hall

  Philadelphia, Black, Towns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

  John Fahey

  Folks, Knows

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• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  Olivier Martinez

  Class, Paris, Born

  "Olivier Martinez: Liberté, Egalité, Sensualité - Enter a New International Heartthrob". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2002.

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• Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

  James Lecesne

  Growing Up, Catholic, Important

  "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Trying, Comedy

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

  Michael Stipe

  Real, World, Links

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the western suburbs of Sydney could become an actress in movies who didn't look like a regular actress, and that I can make it I think gives a lot of hope to other girls who are really creative and don't necessarily follow the standard of what some people consider beauty to be.

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Cities, Veils, Persian

  "Mission for my Country". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 232, 1961.

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Air

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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• When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

  Timothy Egan

  Running, Believe, Loss

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• Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Squares, Cities, Symbolism

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• It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

  Bill Henson

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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