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  • I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. -- Christopher Columbus
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  • I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. -- Jon Stewart
  • All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. -- Chaim Potok
  • I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. -- Robert Gossett
  • The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after. -- Dabney Coleman
  • I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher. -- Mary Steenburgen
  • I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?' -- Carrot Top
  • Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. -- Kent McCord
  • Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. -- Jane Austen
  • On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
  • I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. -- Billy Wilder
  • I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. -- Chris Rock
  • I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can. -- Victoria Justice
  • That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. -- Dick Gregory
  • We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. -- Dan Quayle
  • We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. -- Gavin Newsom
  • I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. -- Jasmine Guy
  • In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? -- Jessamyn West
  • It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. -- Tim Robbins
  • I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. -- Shia LaBeouf
  • I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. -- David Mamet
  • I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. -- Olivier Martinez
  • A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. -- Leonard Nimoy
  • I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. -- Will Smith
  • I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever. -- Halle Berry
  • People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood. -- Fran Drescher
  • And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
  • 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
  • Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say. -- Victoria Moran
  • I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. -- Richard Matheson
  • Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind. -- Billy Joel
  • Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. -- Phil Donahue
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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
  • I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing. -- Bill Frisell
  • Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. -- Dr. Dre
  • In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes. -- Zadie Smith
  • You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool? -- Jay-Z
  • 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
  • I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them. -- Nat Turner
  • 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
  • Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble. -- Adam DeVine
  • I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded. -- Shailene Woodley
  • Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man -- Stan Lee
  • The whole world is one neighborhood. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I don't live in a fancy neighborhood. -- Judah Friedlander
  • You had to be tough in our neighborhood. -- Antonio Gates
  • I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. -- Alicia Keys
  • I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow. -- Kool G Rap
  • I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. -- Steven Seagal
  • I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood. -- Davey Havok
  • The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood. -- Andrew Holleran
  • Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood. -- William Devane
  • Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been. -- Marcia Gay Harden
  • Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200. -- Paul Popenoe
  • Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves. -- Mike Tyson
  • your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. -- Augusten Burroughs
  • We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood. -- George W. Bush
  • I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood. -- Mike Brown
  • If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you. -- Thomas Friedman
  • A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. -- John Ciardi
  • The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. -- Betty Smith
  • The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood. -- Bob Saget
  • Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. -- Hesiod
  • My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. -- Anne Lamott
  • I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean. -- Zach Galifianakis
  • If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters. -- Ray Parker, Jr.
  • I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood. -- Thomas J. Stanley
  • To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  • Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. -- Erma Bombeck
  • You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one, -- Majora Carter
  • There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning. -- Sam Shepard
  • I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood. -- Gabriel Iglesias
  • If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood. -- Malcolm X
  • This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT? -- Eddie Murphy
  • Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad. -- Young Thug
  • Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou
  • My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. -- Ada Yonath
  • My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. -- Tony Curtis
  • Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood. -- William Castle
  • MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. -- Sarah Schulman
  • A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. -- Murray Kempton
  • Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story. -- Chris Farley
  • We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, -- Phil Zimmermann
  • But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. -- Ruben Blades
  • In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. -- Wendell Berry
  • I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it. -- Thom Yorke
  • The fine flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighborhood of the Holy. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. -- Beverly Cleary
  • I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone. -- Steven Wright
  • Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values. -- Herman Van Rompuy
  • When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. -- Roger Wicker
  • I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice. -- Eve
  • There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood. -- Herman Fetzer
  • Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. -- Mike Wallace
  • I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis. -- Mike Judge
  • By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything. -- Wilma Rudolph
  • We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. -- Bob Cousy
  • If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place. -- Anthony Mackie
  • Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. -- Walter Brueggemann
  • I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. -- Edie Falco
  • I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!! -- Dennis Miller
  • If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong. -- Matt Chandler
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