People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't know. Joe likes me. He invites me over to his son's birthday party, and I meet his whole family. I meet his friends. I get to know his neighborhood. That happens all the time.
I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?
Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.
But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels. ' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.
I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.
When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditional neighborhood stores and cafés, they offer different products, and they have a different atmosphere. Longtime residents may feel uncomfortable there. Structurally, as a group of gentrifiers gets bigger, there is less room for longtime residents. When it becomes a pattern and you can see the effects, we call that displacement.
Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!
One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.