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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!
Bob Beauprez
World
Collective
Somewhere
Neighborhood
Trillion
Entire
Colorado
Almost
Contain
Proven
Oil
Much
Barrels
Reserves
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
Bonnie Bedelia
Neighborhood
Kids
Slum
Over
Real
Up
Grew
Street
Played
Rows
Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
Bonnie Hunt
Love
Great
Character
You
People
Every
Local
Character Development
Definitely
Neighborhood
City
Restaurants
Spirit
Through
Winters
Part
Development
Chicago
Get
Essence
Personalities
Stand
Hard-Working
Played
Need
It was something I was dreaming about, to be in WCW or WWE. At that time, it was an escape for me, out of the norm from being a neighborhood kid.
Booker T
Time
Me
Kid
Neighborhood
Out
Dreaming
About
Something
WWE
Norm
Escape
Being
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over.
Brad D. Smith
Home
Me
Walk
Kid
Neighborhood
Kids
Would
Follow
Following
Rather
Lead
Had
No-One
He
Over
Moses
Call
Stick
Around
Said
Dogs
Coming
Than
Anyone
Video
Used
Dad
I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.
Brandon Adams
Home
Situation
Other
Neighborhood
Would
Would-Be
Come
Always
Block
Go
South
Up
Friends
Grew
Story
Central
Whole
Humbled
Set
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
Bruce Davison
Love
Myself
Memories
Hate
Neighborhood
Would
Date
Gordon
Flash
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Playing
Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
Buzz Aldrin
Future
People
Opportunity
Space
Somebody
Down
Neighborhood
Seeing
Stimulate
Go
Up
Begins
Anything
Interest
Whole
Near
Street
I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
Carl Hart
Hood
Neighborhood
Up
Miami
Grew
Poor
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
Carmelo Anthony
People
Sometimes
Relax
Sit
Think
Back
Neighborhood
Out
About
Blank
Been
Lot
Just
Funerals
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
Carmine Giovinazzo
Me
Unity
Neighborhood
Blacks
Always
Italians
Lot
Up
Grew
Conveying
Meant
Whole
Puerto
By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.
Carrie Preston
Time
You
Own
Back
Definitely
Neighborhood
Backyard
My Own
Had
Over
Know
Yard
Doing
Front
Theater
Company
Twelve
Even
Started
By The Time
Plays
I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'
Carrot Top
Good
You
People
Crime
College
Took
Neighborhood
Sign
Laugh
Would
Had
Come
How
Wall
Get
Did
Where
Dorm
Even
Watch
I felt like I couldn't meet a single rich person. Regardless of where I live, they don't want to talk to me. I threw a barbecue and invited the whole neighborhood, and nobody showed up.
Chris Cubas
Me
Single
Rich
Live
Meet
Neighborhood
Threw
Nobody
Invited
Like
Talk
Felt
Up
Person
Where
Want
Regardless
Barbecue
Rich Person
Whole
Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley
Everyone
Neighborhood
Madison
Like
Story
Hollywood
Treating
When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.
Chris Long
Me
You
Regret
Opportunity
College
Everybody
Took
Everything
Neighborhood
Kind
Given
Could
Had
Because
Always
Go
Up
Going
Grew
Ask
Granted
Appreciate
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Chris Rock
You
Live
Neighborhood
Bad
Get
Getting
While
Shot
If your child is starting a new school, walk around your block and get to know the neighborhood children.
Chuck Norris
School
Walk
Neighborhood
New
Know
Around
Block
Child
Get
Children
Your
Your Child
Starting
The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.
Clayton M. Christensen
Love
School
Car
Parents
Drive
Teenagers
Neighborhood
Would
Plug
See
Could
Cruise
Around
Overnight
Go
Friends
Very
Just
Far
Fast
I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.
Cory Booker
Me
People
Will
First
Gave
Neighborhood
Stayed
Never
Never Forget
Put
Got
Forget
Where
Believed
Start
Chance
Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
Courtney B. Vance
Family
People
School
White
Neighborhood
Had
Bought
House
Around
Blocks
Left
Just
Then
Sudden
Away
Two
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
Dabney Coleman
Months
Airplane
Neighborhood
New
Looked
Schools
Got
Five
York
Six
New York
After
Which
Next
Acting
Flew
Four
Started
Night
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
Dan Buettner
Work
Day
Every Day
Water
Live
Every
Neighborhood
Neighbors
Bump
Them
Bike
Connected
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle
Education
Family
Quality
People
Opportunity
Will
Job
Our
Our People
Neighborhood
Invest
Quality Education
Call
Yes
America
Thing
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.
Dan Savage
Sad
Gay
People
Desperate
Met
Corpses
Neighborhood
Neighborhoods
Out
Run
City
Only
He
Him
Came
Were
Mob
Places
Depressing
Dad
Cop
Homicide
I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.
Darren Robinson
Teacher
Day
Me
Guitar
Old
Guitarist
First
Band
Lesson
Local
Neighborhood
Folks
Some
Had
Were
Years
Up
Friends
Next
Who
Actually
Eleven
Started
Playing
Starting
Needed
Set
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