Downtown Quotes - Page 2

• When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

  Eydie Gorme

  Wedding, Two, Married

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• Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Europe, America

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• The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

  William Petersen

  Wife, Chicago, Goes On

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• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, Giving Up, School

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

  Neil Young

  Talking, People, Want

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.

  Daniel Holloway

  Inspirational, Basketball, Flower

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• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Romantic, Husband, Nice

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

  Bobby Heenan

  Two, Stories, Skyscraper

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Morning, Cost, Littles

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  San Francisco, Office, Navy

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

  Guy Lafleur

  Night, Important, My Family

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• My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, School, Cameras

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

  Amy Hempel

  Character, Giving, Credit

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• I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Night, Eight, Four

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• We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Moving, People, Tragedy

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• If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

  Rick Riordan

  Pigs, Advice, Flying

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Social Taboos, Long, Dancer

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called “Landslide.” When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Fun

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• My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Glasses, Rose

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.

  Noel Perrin

  Beautiful, Cities, America

  Noel Perrin (1999). “Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Teens, Phases, Firsts

  "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

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