42nd Street Quotes

• I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

  Will Durant

  Freedom, Looks, Excess

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• At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, Night, Years

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• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

  Rachel Cohn

  Cities, Gone, Ambassadors

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.99, Egmont UK

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• There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Mean, Bodybuilding

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