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I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool. -- Clara Mamet
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact. -- Stephen Sondheim
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. -- Stephen Ambrose
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. -- Jill McCorkle
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be. -- Richard Russo
To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do. -- Phyllis Diller
Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed. -- Kate Winslet
Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much. -- David Sedaris
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. -- Ralph Nader
You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. -- Howard E. Koch
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. -- Marc Chagall
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. -- Francis Bacon
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. -- Robert E. Lee
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. -- Benjamin Franklin
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. -- Sam Harris
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. -- Sitting Bull
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. -- Abraham Lincoln
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. -- Maya Angelou
Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live. -- David Binder
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. -- John F. Kennedy
I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. -- Cedric Richmond
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. -- William Hazlitt
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. -- Queen Elizabeth II
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma. -- Anthony Weiner
In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away. -- Jet Li
It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time. -- Larry David
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike! -- Patricia Polacco
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves. -- Thomas S. Monson
Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head. -- Ray Charles
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know. -- Kevin DeYoung
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001. -- Michael Bloomberg
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -- Wendell Berry
Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost
Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors. -- Amy Poehler
We must live harmoniously with our neighbors. -- Dalai Lama
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. -- Roberto Bolano
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. -- Philip Massinger
Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors. -- Confucius
What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? -- J. K. Rowling
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! -- Bob Goff
My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes. -- Bindi Irwin
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise. -- Pindar
All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not. -- John Steinbeck
I find my movie props in my neighbors houses. -- Zach Braff
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors -- Confucius
We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors. -- John F. Kennedy
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. -- Quentin Crisp
Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors. -- John F. Kerry
Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors. -- Paulo Coelho
My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors. -- Jimmy Carter
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. -- Abraham Lincoln
I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits. -- Lynn Samuels
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. -- George Eliot
Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors. -- Gregoire
Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. -- George Ade
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. -- Henry David Thoreau
No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border. -- Joe Biden
I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling? -- John Muir
Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. -- Benjamin Franklin
God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself. -- James Richardson
Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. -- James Sheridan Knowles
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. -- Pietro Aretino
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. -- Emily Post
Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass. -- Benjamin Franklin
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. -- Henry David Thoreau
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. -- Fred Rogers
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking. -- David Plouffe
When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors -- Leah Busque
Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo. -- Lita Ford
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies. -- Jean Charest
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo -- Lita Ford
My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. -- Marco Rubio
All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet. Ana Monnar -- Ana Monnar
The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors. -- Karl Hess
We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are. -- John Green
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master. -- John Dryden
I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors. -- Zac Posen
Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors! -- Kelly Clarkson
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. -- Plutarch
I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors. -- Felipe Esparza
And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. -- Robert Fulghum
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. -- Norman Douglas
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. -- Minna Antrim
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. -- Audrey Hepburn
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. -- Ambrose Bierce
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors. -- Felix Frankfurter
There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors. -- R. Kent Hughes
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. -- George Ade
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. -- Sun Tzu
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. -- F. H. Bradley
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. -- James Goldsmith
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. -- Jez Butterworth
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. -- James F. Byrnes
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. -- Wynton Marsalis
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. -- Moliere
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. -- Francis Bacon
My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors. -- Girl Talk
I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself. -- Amos Oz
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. -- Josh Billings
The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family. -- Huey Newton
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. -- Lou Holtz
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you -- Drake
Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. -- Philip Freneau
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. -- Ellen Glasgow
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! -- John Burroughs
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. -- Diana Trilling
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing. -- Shaun Williamson
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. -- Samuel Smiles

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