Streets Quotes - Page 18

• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Bail, Students

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• I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.

  Banksy

  Art, Book, Mean

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• I will always dance in the street.

  Martha Reeves

  "Live From..." with Kyra Phillips, edition.cnn.com. January 24, 2006.

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• It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Age, Want

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• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

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• Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Nuclear, Cloning

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

  Charles Bukowski

  School, Eye, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them. If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Passion, Kids, Helping

  "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" By Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

  Rob Lowe

  Good Life, Men, Ill Will

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• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

  Caryl Phillips

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Caryl Phillips (2009). “In the Falling Snow”, Harvill Press

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• Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

  Willie Stargell

  Real, Cities, Long

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Butterfly, Knuckleballs, Hiccups

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Tired, Sky

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• Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Men, Demand, Kind

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

  Douglas Hurd

  Downing Street, Office, House

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• I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Wall, Frustration, Class

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• My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Parent

  "E=MO²". Comedy album, 1985.

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• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

  Reynolds Price

  Mother, Children, Cities

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• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  Angus Young

  Song, Believe, Silly

  Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Teenager, Asking, London

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Gay, Gang Members, San Francisco

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

  Inga Muscio

  Celebration, Oppression, Gender

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