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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood. Daryl Hall

Black Become Neighborhood Since Town Industrial Integrated Up Very Grew Place Which Suburb Agricultural Basically Philadelphia

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead. Dave Ramsey

You Class Man Remember Believe Neighborhood Like Know Well Hearing Up Get Upper Upper-Class Just Where Grew Anything Little Then Little Man Certainly Rough Things Start

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood. Davey Havok

Nice Neighborhood Freak Moved Who

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened. David Morrell

Me Son Reality People Cancer Job Distract Wish Think Neighborhood Tell Never Had Lot Friendly Died Stories Happened Happening Granddaughter Them Reasons Right Things

Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck. Debbie Reynolds

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building. Denis Leary

People Old Fire Building Other Our Neighborhood Entire Firefighters Had Mass Couple Cousin Left Up Five Trying Died Middle Warehouse Warm Who Homeless Keep Jerry Downtown Hometown Right Started Save

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them. Deontay Wilder

Family Me Sometimes Parents Trouble Other Everyone Typical Neighborhood Tell Would See Had Knew Another Got Making Normal Upbringing American Where After Them Each Watched

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right. Derrick Rose

Mom Family Hurt Tough Trouble Feelings Everything Neighborhood Out Would Tried Find Brothers Small Knew Because Around Tight Always Were Up Very Any Just Being Where Want Grew Really Growing Growing Up Right

815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia. Deshaun Watson

Neighborhood Exact Born Name Georgia Square Raised

I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition. Dion DiMucci

You Man Made Starts Virtue Those Neighborhood Macho Never Developing Come Make Principles Vulnerable Boy Becoming Making Real Making Decisions Italian Years Decisions Transition Start Thirteen

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. Don Kardong

Light Dance First Later Marking Neighborhood Hides Complicate Runner Running Slush Ruts Through Hazards Ankles Merely New Footprints Sure Leaving Domain Snow May Tire Again Ice Turns Right Twist Chance

Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards. Don Kardong

Winter Risks Dark Cold Neighborhood Visits Runners Be Careful About Hazards Head Over Known Course Without Been South Frozen Lovers Certain Who Even Lungs Careful

When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil-A. It offers the word-nerd trifecta: I bring Bose headphones; they provide Wi-Fi and waffle fries. Don Willett

Time Writing Neighborhood My Time Split Between Headphones Waffle Provide Fries Offers Office Satellite Chambers Bring

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. Dr. Dre

Music Home Me Sports School Made Everybody Back Way Everywhere Ghetto Neighborhood Park Could Feel Always Got Fence Were Jump Did Just Where Loved

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

Life Better Neighborhood Wound Clean Raw Bandage Than Much

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. Edie Falco

Fight Neighborhood Kind Boy Up Grew Used Tomboy

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed. Elijah Cummings

You Neighborhood Wire Come Understand Where

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me. Els Borst

War Time Great Me Made Few Jews Our Saw Neighborhood Neighbors Taken Also Houses Always How Were Impression Up Very Where Us Inhabited Many Lived Downstairs Rounded Away Amsterdam

My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city. Eric Garcetti

Family Job Overwhelming Starts Neighborhood City Main Street

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 Zundel

Better Thought Neighborhood Neighbors Out Besides Scare Clear Fake Than Getting Dutch Upset Where Them Might Whole Bomb Here

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice. Eve

Culture Nice Live Neighborhood Indian Indian Culture West Lot Where

I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' - 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood. F. Gary Gray

Life Me Song Remember First Hood Neighborhood Kind Angeles Vivid Clear Partly Because Witnessing Los Los Angeles Heard South Where Experiencing Central Used Porch Street

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood. Fran Drescher

You People School Group Meet Neighborhood Kids High Kindergarten High School No-One Still Years Left Same Apartments Them Lived Ever

First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them. Frank Deford

You Game Sports People Fans First Same Thing Too Broadcast Claim Neighborhood Television TV Bad Critics Know Vow Well Sure Does Sound Foremost Off Same Listen Oh Them Turn Turn-Off Your Who Radio Thing

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