Streets Quotes - Page 5

• I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

  Serinda Swan

  Color, Other Cultures, Dresses

  "Serinda Swan on 'Graceland' and Her Go-To Red-Carpet Designers". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. January 30, 2013.

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• The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

  Bono

  Father, People, Trying

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• I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

  Denise Van Outen

  Years, Challenges, Next

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, People, Elements

  "Madonna: 'I don't think people have to be aroused sexually by what you wear' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Kris Needs, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Ukraine, People

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• When I started to run, I would run a mile and then walk a mile and kept building up as time went on. If you are running on the street, go one mailbox or one house further each day. It also helps to build up your endurance!

  Heidi Klum

  Running, Building Up, House

  "Heidi Klum Shares Her Spring Workout and Diet Secrets (and Guess What: Cheeseburgers Are Allowed)". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. March 25, 2014.

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• In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

  Billy Connolly

  Fall, Chocolate, Pockets

  "Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". TV Special, October 26, 1985.

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• We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Cities, Iraq

  "Bush administration on Iraq 9/11 link". news.bbc.co.uk.

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• I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Kids, Connections, Pieces

  "Giuliana And Bill Rancic Have Begun Adoption Process In Italy" By Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

  Randy Harrison

  Hats, Walks, Heads Up

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  Wallace Stegner

  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

  Helen Levitt

  Children, People, Television

  "Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95" by Margarett Loke, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

  Allen Iverson

  Nba, Games

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• If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Real, Writing, Past

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Loot”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Thinking, People

  Interview with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2008.

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• That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Stars, People

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Growing Up, Men, Thinking

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.381, A&C Black

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• I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kings, Thinking, Alternatives

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• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Cities

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• She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

  Judith Martin

  Husband, Shoes, Smoking

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

  Tayeb Salih

  Life, Education, Garden

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann

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