Streets Quotes - Page 27

• I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

  Daymond John

  Jobs, Wall, Thinking

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• My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.

  David Walliams

  Fun, Years, Healthy

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• I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

  John Barrowman

  School, Archery, Class

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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• If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

  Chris Rock

  People, Would Be, Rich

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• I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Sleep, Drunk, Gutters

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• I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

  Ice T

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

  Ice T

  Play, Creating, Sound

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• It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.

  Julia Sawalha

  Mcdonalds, Years, People

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• My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

  Tyga

  Heart, Emotional, Echoes

  Song: Moving Backwards

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• People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I'm a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car.

  Doug Benson

  Eye, Phones, Cells

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• Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

  Bonnie Tyler

  Wise, Fighting, Men

  Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986

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• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Party, Book, Politics

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

  Richard Trumka

  Wall, Economic Inequality, Goal

  "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.

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• [Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Exercise, Journey, Cycling

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• We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

  Judith Stone

  Smart, Science, Play

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Monday, Nice, People

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• I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Wish, Amusement

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• It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Iron, Giving, Justice

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• If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

  Andy Samberg

  Dollars, Looks, Pennies

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

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• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  Hamish Linklater

  New York, People, Giving

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

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• A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.

  Shaheen Mistri

  Educational, Order, Play

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• Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain.

  Ted Corbitt

  Running, Pain, Shoes

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• For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

  Agnes Smedley

  Events, Firsts, Week

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• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

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