Streets Quotes - Page 32

• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

  Chris Hedges

  Color, Years, Jail

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• My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

  Rinus Michels

  Soccer, Educational, Natural

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• My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

  J. Cole

  Girl, Mom, Dream

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• I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

  Spike Lee

  People, Thought Provoking, Trying

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• I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

  Franklin Graham

  World, Slums

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  Eazy-E

  Kids, Reality, Care

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

  Timbaland

  Real, Trying, Different

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

  James M. Cain

  Country, Writing, Character

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• The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.

  Newton Lee

  Our World, Government, Two

  Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.191, Springer

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• Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Growing Up, White

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.119, Crossing Press

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• I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets and getting into street fighting and getting depressed. Then I'd listen to Marley and it lifted me out of it. I'd like to try and do the same for kids, that my music would give them a bit of hope and strength, and they'd know that I was telling the truth and I wouldn't lie to them.

  Damien Dempsey

  Lying, Drinking, Kids

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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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• A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

  Ned Sublette

  Rights, Community, Peaceful

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• I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Wall, Sleep, Guy

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• When you’re in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you’d look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  Victoria Beckham

  Looks, Littles, Paparazzi

  "Victoria Beckham, Working Girl". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Character, Thinking, Tears

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• The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

  Cesar Pelli

  Rivers, Ambitious, Limits

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

  Terrell Owens

  Living Right, Daddy, May

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• Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

  Nicole Appleton

  Eye, Normal, Treated

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• I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.

  Peter Turnley

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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• The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

  William Vaughn Moody

  Fire, Cities, Roaring

  William Vaughn Moody (1901). “Gloucester Moors and Other Poems”

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• A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Names, Enemy

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