- Law
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There’s a reason they got there.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kiddie pool attendant, and I was a white rapper. That's not going to get you a job on Wall Street.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Marvel catalogue of 9,000 characters really is that rich. It isn't just a bunch of guys running around with capes and cowls who have secret identities and fight across the street from each other.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020