Streets Quotes - Page 31

• No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!

  Victoria Woodhull

  Girl, Lying, Divorce

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• Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.

  Howard Dean

  Running, Teacher, Kids

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• It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

  Jason Statham

  People, Bored, Theater

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• I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time
  about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.

  Wesley Willis

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Ideas, Two

  Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.33, Trafalgar Square Books

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• I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.

  Asmaa Mahfouz

  Scared, Criticise

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• I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Rats, Mardi Gras

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• The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.

  Arthur Caplan

  Baby, School, Doctors

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

  Martin de Maat

  Mediocrity, Banner, Ifs

  "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Thieves

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• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Baseball, Brother

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• You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

  Rick James

  Song, Magic, Special

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 16, 2015

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• I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

  Mickey Kaus

  Wall, Experts, Paper

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• A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Men, Doors, Long

  "Window Dictatorship and Window Rights". www.hundertwasser.at. 1990.

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• Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Book, Heart

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• You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. All the managers, pitching coaches are very sensitive. Look, you can always pick at something, but there's a broader picture, a grander picture.

  Bud Selig

  Hurt, Spring, Mean

  "Classic move: Yankees apologize" by The Associated Press, archive.boston.com. March 5, 2006.

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• The churches weren't going to accept me looking like a street person with long hair and faded jeans. They did not like the music I was recording. And I had no desire to preach the gospel to the converted.

  Larry Norman

  Hair, Jeans, Long

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Doors, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Numbers, Luck, Technique

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Wall, Trading Floor, Camaraderie

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• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, New York, Media

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• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

  Amy Goodman

  Wall, Party, Numbers

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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