Neighborhood Quotes - Page 36

• Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Colorado, World

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• But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

  Ruben Blades

  Thirteen

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• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Reading, Average

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• Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Dumb, Election

  "THE 43rd PRESIDENT; Excerpts From News Conference in Which Bush Named Treasury Secretary". George W. Bush's remarks at the news conference in Austin, Texas, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2000.

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• Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

  Jeb Bush

  Unique, Florida, Diversity

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• The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

  David Byrne

  Voting, One Day, Rich Poor

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• I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Opportunity, Cities, Community

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• Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Moving, Men, White

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

  Bill Cosby

  Gun, Hands, People

  "SIMMONS: Bill Cosby weighs in on Trayvon Martin case". Interview with Deborah Simmons, www.washingtontimes.com. April 7, 2012.

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• He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Cute, Cutting, Giving

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• My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

  Tony Curtis

  Navy, World, Bronx

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• In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Opinion, Synagogue, Concerts

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• When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Kids, Nerd

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• I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, New York, Growing Up

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, Choices, Decision

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

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• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Party, School

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• Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

  Paul Engle

  July, Precious Stones, Envy

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• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  Edie Falco

  Fighting, Boys, Kind

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• Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, School

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• If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

  Thomas Friedman

  Life, Success, Visits You

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• Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Children, Giving

  "Madame Voldemort Is Wrong: Public Employees Are American Heroes" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

  Lee Haney

  Sports, Children, Kids

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• It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

  Marco Rubio

  Hate, Nice, People

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