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- Nov 07, 2020
Street Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street fashion forever.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump has the courage to stand up to Wall Street, to the K Street lobbyists, and say our trade deals have not been best for the ordinary, average citizen American.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I booked my first national tour of a Broadway show right out of college. It was the tap show, '42nd Street.' I had only been tap dancing for three years when I booked that show.
- Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Cuba Gooding Jr. and I were doing 'The Trip to Bountiful,' we would always go to BXL, a Belgian restaurant/bar. It was across the street from the theater, and they have amazing mussels.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to rip off working people without any consequences.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born here and I was raised here in Los Angeles. And when I was five years old, my best friends were Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a child, it's not so much scary, it's surreal; there was a lot of fighting in my great-grandmother's house; you'd go there and then someone would meet up and there'd be a fight; I've seen my uncles fight in the street, I've seen my grandmother fight in the street, it becomes normal.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luis Suarez's always been a great role model for me. His style of play is sometimes like he's playing with his mates in the street.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn't have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write 'Batman' because she'll see an article about me in the 'Washington Post' or 'The Wall Street Journal' or something. And that means so much to me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's crucial in a High Street store is a compelling reason for people to shop there. Shops must offer excellent customer service - and 'theatre' is a must.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it - I'm serious: it's an actual job.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm also a martial-arts practitioner, so it was an easy transition to go do 'Street Fighter,' which is action-packed and let me showcase my acting and martial-arts capabilities.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was going to play any video game, it'd be things like 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,' 'Street Fighter' and 'Mortal Kombat.'
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hester Street Fair is kind of like a tiny baby DailyCandy market every week in the Lower East Side.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm doing is British. It stems from the same culture as U.S. hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. It's U.K. street culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
- Nov 07, 2020
In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020