Avenues Quotes - Page 2

• Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

  Spencer Bachus

  Responsibility, Immigration, Citizenship

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

  Mariano Rivera

  Baseball, My Family, Lord

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• One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

  Frank Stallone

  Night, Guitar, Voice

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• I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Ideas, House

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• I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

  James Lipton

  Art, Answers, Examination

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• If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.

  Dylan Lauren

  Sweaters, Bears, Rich

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

  Tom Hardy

  Art, Father, Home

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

  Sharon Gless

  Age, Dollars, Pay

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

  Marc Cohn

  Unions, Saws, Ghost

  Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, League, Pirate

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• I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

  Cat Osterman

  Passion, Tears, These Days

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• I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, People, Different

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• As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

  Hugh Ferriss

  Doctors, Blood, Cities

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

  Rick James

  Pimp, Looks, Faces

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 27, 2013

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• The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

  Gary Zukav

  Creativity, Commitment, Heal

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 16, 2013

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• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  Chad Smith

  Brother, Player, California

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• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

  Mark Kurlansky

  New York, Food, Beer

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• Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Attention, Vortex

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• Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Media, Ongoing, Social

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