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• As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

  Oscar Hijuelos

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  Tags in Neighborhood, Questions

• I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn’t do in my rough neighborhood.

  Sherman Hemsley

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  Tags in Elementary, Neighborhood

• I’m a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn’t worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

  Darius Rucker

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• There’s a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, ‘Futon World.’ Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

  Demetri Martin

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  Tags in Time, Think, Like, Neighborhood

• You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the guy.

  Frankie Valli

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• I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

  Gilbert Hernandez

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

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• In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

  John Legend

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

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• 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.

  Conan O'Brien

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

  Steven Spielberg

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• 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

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• 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.

  Gary Oldman

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

  Chris Rock

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  And besides, I’m so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they’d have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

   

  Ernst Zündel

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  Tags in Thought, Better, Neighborhood

• As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I’ve never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

  Rachel Weisz

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• 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

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  Tags in Admirable, Involved, Internationally, Neighborhood, Activist, Locally, Community

• We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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• I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

  Lloyd Banks

  Tags in Striving, Corners, Neighborhood