- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street Quotes
On streets, cities, and the people who walk them.
Street here means several things at once - a career path through Wall Street, a childhood spent in dance class instead of on the block, and an ordinary bystander worn down by conflict. Like shares a similarly reflective tone.
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they think of.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved playing street football since I was very young.
- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today I may advocate through my art, but I've won my share of 'hood fights.' So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I'd be the first one to jump in.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.
- Dead End
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- Nov 07, 2020
But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.
- Dome
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with stories where people's roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.
- Capitol Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020