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“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!”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.”

Plans Republican Findings African American Neighborhood Museums Location

Author:Conan O'Brien

“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.”

Giving Class Growing Up Fire Growing Particular Anger Edges Neighborhood Working Class

Author:Gary Oldman

“I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.”

Today Personality Stronger Neighborhood Soap Strolling Philadelphia Charismatic Daytime Bland

Author:Camille Paglia

“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.”

Ifs Giving Children Book Real Parent Enjoy Independence Library Cards Your Children Neighborhood Introducing Borrowing Library Cards

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.”

Children Helping School Class Color Succeed Deserve Backgrounds Neighborhood

Author:Rand Paul

“The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“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.”

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Author:Chaim Potok

“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”

People Jobs America Opportunity Politics Quality Neighborhood Quality Education Job Opportunities

Author:Dan Quayle

“I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.”

Men Hard Lost Class Hard Work Noble Expected Get Up Neighborhood Chicago Boots Working Class Prerequisites

Author:John C. Reilly

“Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.”

People Knows Made Groups New York Neighborhood

Author:Ann Richards

“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.”

Kids Guy Father Dangerous Neighborhood Mafia

Author:Tim Robbins

“I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“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.'”

People Hate House Nice I Hate Neighborhood Nice House

Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.”

People Art Young Community Groups Citizens Concerned Organization Active Neighborhood Association Leisure Civics Worshippers

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Two Government Parent Break Economy Consequence Bigger Neighborhood Breaking Down Breakdown

Author:Rick Santorum

“My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.”

People Running Cities Dad Mets Gay My Dad Desperate Neighborhood Cop Depressing Corpses Gay People Homicide

Author:Dan Savage

“I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.”

Black Born Neighborhood Detroit All Black

Author:Steven Seagal

“In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”

Looks Eye Guy Neighborhood

Author:Joe Biden

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

Soul Earth Community Class Middle Independence Dependent Middle Class Neighborhood Cooperation Blasphemy Independence Day Donation Kwanzaa Organ Donation

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.”

Littles Different Play Running Kids Remember Romance Rooms Acting Brother Sitting Silly Piano My Brother Score Different Things Neighborhood Little Kid Living Room Being Silly Acting Out

Author:Mike Shinoda

“When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.”

Want Sides Walks Neighborhood Your Side Poodles Rottweilers

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

Girl Church Catholic Raised Crush Neighborhood Household Catholic Church Baptists

Author:Will Smith

“In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.”

Different Real Reason Black Community White Fantasy Comedy Jokes Real Life Boards Neighborhood Appreciated

Author:Will Smith

“The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”

Littles Home Kids Comedy Drama Neighborhood Twelve

Author:Steven Spielberg

“That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.”

Pride Reputation Neighborhood

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.”

Way Feels Moving Cities Feet Built Areas Remains Welcome Pleasant Neighborhood Bicycle

Author:Alex Steffen

“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”

Men Community Ignorance Stranger Neighborhood Brotherhood Globes Brotherhood Of Man

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“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.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

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

Neighborhood Thirteen

Author:Ruben Blades

“For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.”

Years Kids Girl Father Voice Known Neighborhood Stoops

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.”

People Looks Real Whole Problem School Bits Crime Drug Bottom Minorities Our Society Neighborhood Educate Real Problems School System

Author:Clarence Thomas

“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”

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Author:J. C. Watts

“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?”

Men Want Soul Success Standards My Soul My Time Neighborhood

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”

Men Community Neighbor Selfish Helping Others Selfishness Neighborhood Neglect Selfish People Kwanzaa Good Neighbor Selfish Men Selfishness And Greed

Author:Richard Whately

“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”

Ifs Funny Worship Neighbor Neighborhood

Author:Billy Wilder

“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”

Ifs Home Bigs House Nice Protect Good Things Stores Neighborhood Groceries Grocery Stores Big Houses Motels

Author:will.i.am

“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.”

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Author:Andrew Young

“My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.”

School Mother Fun Party Special Huge Neighborhood Organize Cookies Elementary School Classmates Napkins Hawaiians Bakeries Shamrocks Old Neighborhood

Author:Christine Quinn

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.”

Next Religious Neighborhood Burned Cheese Godliness Cleanliness Chores Ovens Religious Experience Toasters

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.”

Real Humor Funny Hurt Tough Window Fingers Neighborhood

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.”