Wall Quotes - Page 12

• To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Expression, Messages

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Bankers, Four, Talent

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• The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

  Jane Clayson Johnson

  Jobs, Home, Important

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• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  Hans Haacke

  Museums, Jacuzzi, Working It

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• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Butterfly, Admire

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Men, Honest, Raised

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• The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

  Joshua Rogers

  Art, Creating, Investing

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• In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

  Russell Wilson

  School, Kids, Teeth

  "Wilson's an ideal role model". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2015.

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Husband, Grandmother, Law

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• Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

  David Heyman

  Commitment, Passion, Fighting

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• Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Eye, Reality, Color

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• It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

  Paul McEuen

  Vacuums, Atoms, Sides

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• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  Al Seckel

  Book, Creative, Titles

  "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Loneliness, Race, Class

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

  Rory Miller

  Teenager, School, Simple

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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Faithful, Fiction

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Orange, Color, Opposites

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• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Taken, Mean, Dwelling

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

  Philip M. Condit

  Agreement, Doe, Looks

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• I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

  Susan Cain

  Country, Years, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  Hayden Fry

  Color, Games, Beats

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• It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

  Patrick Geddes

  Past, Thinking, Interesting

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• You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

  Chris Hadfield

  Together, Collaboration, Bricks

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

  Abdallah II

  Diversity, Growth, Progress

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Pain, Struggle

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