Neighborhood Quotes - Page 23

• When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

  Hedi Slimane

  Home, Kids, Jeans

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

  Shay Mitchell

  Mom, Dad, Grew Up

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• If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

  Anthony Mackie

  United States, Would Be, Magical Places

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Poor Neighborhoods, Habit

  "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Virginia, Space

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• I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

  Stone Gossard

  Running, Thinking, Cities

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. Ocotober 17, 2008.

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• Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

  Hubert Butler

  Impact, Events, Littles

  Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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• Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

  Joe Johnston

  Moving, People, Trying

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• On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind solutions that make the lives of the American people safer and more prosperous.

  Ellen Malcolm

  New York, People, Clinton

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• I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

  Marc Cherry

  Beautiful, Fun, Ideas

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• Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Earth, Towns

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• I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

  Christopher Bollen

  New York, Doors, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

  Chita Rivera

  Thinking, Groups, Grew Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

  John Chancellor

  Anger, Pride, Envy

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• The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

  Andrew Greeley

  Love Is, Hands, Friendly

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

  Walt Disney

  Halloween, Scared, Happened

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Long, Facts

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Kids, Odds

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

  Paul Popenoe

  Pascal

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• The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

  Andrew Vachss

  People, Lines, Vote

  Andrew Vachss (2008). “Terminal: A Burke Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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