- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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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.
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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