Neighborhood Quotes - Page 31

• I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

  Bruce Davison

  Memories, Hate, Flash Gordon

  "Bruce Davison Is President Wilson in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 6, 2010.

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• I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

  Alex Flinn

  Fun, Kids, Play

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• When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

  Dan Fogler

  Silly, Kids, Guy

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• Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

  John Garamendi

  Home, House, Community

  "Democrats Mulling New Housing Bailout Plan". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

  Luis Guzman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

  Andre Balazs

  New York, Soho, Former

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• If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cities, House

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.159, UNM Press

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• If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Strange, Ghost, Busters

  Song: Ghost Busters

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• Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.

  Michael Jackson

  Blood, Poetry, Soul

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• I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

  Stone Gossard

  Exercise, Cities, Sides

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• I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

  Sherman Hemsley

  School, Acting, Forget

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• People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Soup Kitchens, Self, Volunteer

  "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

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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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• I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

  Davey Havok

  Nice, Freak, Moved

  "Pop Quiz: Davey Havok of A.F.I". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2006.

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• Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

  Abdallah II

  Believe, Moving, Israel

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• Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

  Michael Imperioli

  Pain, Cities, Detroit

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• I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

  George Jones

  Home, Social Taboos, Drunk

  Song: If drinkin' don't kill me, Album: I Am What I Am

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• Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Fun, Color

  "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Children, Heart, Opportunity

  "Giuliana And Bill Rancic Have Begun Adoption Process In Italy" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

  Johnny Ramone

  Bully, Way, Felt

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.12, Abrams

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• I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

  Ving Rhames

  Children, Media, Poverty

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

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• I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

  Ben Silbermann

  Phones, Long, People

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• Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

  Sonja Sohn

  Caring, Community, Elements

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

  Patricia Heaton

  Song, Children, Shows

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