Suburbs Quotes - Page 5

• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  Suge Knight

  Growing Up, Cancer, Cities

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, War, Moving

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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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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• Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Clothes, Protection, Witness

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• One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Smart, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

  Darren Hayes

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• Well, I'II tell ya, it makes no difference if you came from the city. And it don't matter if you came from the country. And some of you out there within the sound of my voice may have come from the suburbs.

  Clarence Carter

  Country, Cities, Voice

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• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  Patrick Stump

  Girlfriend, Home, Kids

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

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• I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Hurt, Grew Up, Starbucks

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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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• I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.

  Karen Walton

  Girl, Crazy, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

  Melissa Bean

  Identity, Growing, Crime

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• Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Cities, Detroit

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• I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Children, California, San Francisco

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• In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Years, California

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• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

  John Pople

  Summer, Children, East

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

  Dorothy Parker

  Cities, Two, Los Angeles

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

  Anna Sui

  Detroit, Grew Up, Grew

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• I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

  Billy Corgan

  Grew Up, Grew, Associates

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