Streets Quotes - Page 37

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

  John Grisham

  Doors, Levels, Walks

  "A life in writing: John Grisham" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2011.

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• Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

  Betty Ford

  Hands, Driving, Wonderful

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• People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, "Where have you been?" The second comment they make is always, "Oh, you've grown up."

  Macaulay Culkin

  People, Firsts, Comment

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

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

  Kevin Bacon

  Men, Average, Talking

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• Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

  Matt Damon

  New York, Obscurity, Looks

  "Top gun" by Steven Goldman, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2007.

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• I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Golden, Sides, Lord

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Agency, Trying, Different

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• I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

  Andrea Corr

  School, Talking, People

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• People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

  Andrea Corr

  People, Recognise You, Busy

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• Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

  Cheryl James

  Girl, Rap, Voice

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• In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

  Ron Chernow

  Wall, People, World

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• I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

  Judy Blume

  Book, People, Treats

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• I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

  Richard Beymer

  Smart, Character, Guy

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• If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

  Soulja Boy

  Clubs, Percent, Ifs

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• When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

  Troian Bellisario

  Years, My Best Friend, Mary

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• I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

  Alice Barrett

  Mom, Walks, Just A Mom

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• I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

  Ben Bernanke

  Towns, Small Town, Main Street

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• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  Gavin Bryars

  Men, Skills, Ideas

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

  James Blunt

  Stars, Guests, Stuff

  "This much I know" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, Japan

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• I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

  Ruth Brown

  Church, Stage

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