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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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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020