Streets Quotes - Page 38

• I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

  Saffron Burrows

  Nice, Two, Paris

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• My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

  Samantha Bee

  Crazy, Home, People

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

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• I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

  Simon Baker

  Wall, Thinking, Voice

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

  Solomon Burke

  Jumping, Hands, Lines

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• Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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• I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Sleep, Night, People

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2008.

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• I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

  Gwendoline Christie

  Nice, Years, Feet

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

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• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  Jack Antonoff

  Strong, Fire, Allies

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

  Debbie Allen

  Play, West, Prophet

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• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

  Rachel Cohn

  Wise, Character, Young

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• Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Wall, Thinking, Class

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

  Guillaume Canet

  Dog, New York, Mean

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• I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

  Johnnie Cochran

  White, Talking, Southern

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• Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

  Maria Cantwell

  Wall, Roulette, Want

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

  Maria Cantwell

  Wall, Government, Acting

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Desperate Situations, People, Broken

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• I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

  Carson Daly

  Love Is, Lasts, Inspired

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• There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, Frustration, People

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• Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

  Glenn Danzig

  Buying, Records, Drink

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• Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

  Howard Dean

  Wall, Thinking, Years

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Running, Artist, People

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• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  Jerry Doyle

  Wall, Growing Up, Flying

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• I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Children, Cities

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• The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

  Jay Electronica

  Jobs, Sleep, Atlanta

  "Jay Electronica says 'my dreams are coming true'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

  James Frey

  Book, Kind, Coverage

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

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