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“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.”

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Author:Jim Nollman

“I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.”

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Author:Esperanza Spalding

“When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?”

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Author:Esperanza Spalding

“But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids.”

“We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.”

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Author:Anton Yelchin

“I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices.”

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Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.”

Neighborhood Plague

Author:Gordon Quinn

“The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.”

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Author:Eric Bolling

“We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins.”

People Thinking Said Known Careful Neighborhood Bad Things Be Careful They Said Margins Nazareth

Author:Shane Claiborne

“The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.”

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Author:Shane Claiborne

“There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.”

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Author:Shane Claiborne

“It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.”

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Author:Questlove

“Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.”

Years Littles Play Community Boys Wonderful Grew Grew Up Let Me Balls Nine Good Times Neighborhood Wonderful Times Had A Good Time

Author:Jeff Sessions

“When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting that we should deport 11 million undocumented workers, who are mostly people that came to this country to better themselves, and to patrol neighborhoods of predominantly Muslims families. This shows you how deeply held those feelings really are in our country and that the Republicans have absolutely no interest in helping minorities.”

“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.”

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Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for human beings. Those are the areas that I connect with because I come from places like that, and I just think it's interesting how the rest of the world acts like it doesn't exist. But a lot of the best things come from there.”

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Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.”

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Author:Adrian Grenier

“Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.”

People Ifs Knows Poor Cities Worst Car Neighborhood Poorest Supermarkets Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

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Author:Daniel Libeskind

“I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.”

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Author:John Lewis

“Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend more money at the businesses in their neighborhoods. [Donald] Trump's against that as well.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.”

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Author:Mike Judge

“We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.”

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Author:David Byrne

“A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.”

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Author:David Byrne

“There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed. But for government, I think in many cases, they could do more.”

People Thinking Wells Soul Government Eye Fighting Community Poverty Cases Succeed Neighborhood

Author:Paul Ryan

“I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.”

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Author:Victoria Justice

“I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.”

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Author:Aja Naomi King

“Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS's message is true and real.”

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Author:Michael Leiter

“It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.”

“And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.”

Men Should Young Rights Add Young Man Neighborhood Disagree

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.”

My Favorite Things To Do Neighborhood Favorites Things Cruise Headphones Old Neighborhood

Author:Mark Duplass

“African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there.”

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Author:Ras Baraka

“I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.”

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Author:Cathy O'Neil

“My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.”

People Thinking Ends Connections Down And The End Of The Day Neighborhood Spokes Miami

Author:Andre Holland

“[ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“We're not obligated to watch ourselves be dissolved away simply because it's not fair that we're so big and powerful. And a lot of people think that it is. And it's not. It's not an obligation. You wouldn't let your own home be treated this way. You wouldn't let your own neighborhood be treated this way. And you don't have to let your own country, either.”

People Thinking Way Country Home Bigs Powerful Watches Fairs Obligation Treated Neighborhood Not Fair

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.”

Wanted Neighborhood Diverse

Author:Sho Baraka

“We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.”

World Lost Connections Entertainment Neighborhood

Author:Rakim

“Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.”

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Author:Rakim

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