- 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
- Harshly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
- Disappear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020