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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
- Average Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its original version, the FTAA was meant to be a special carve-out for Washington and Wall Street as global 'free trade' advanced under the umbrella of the Doha round of the WTO.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tourist will just walk up to a Natchezian on the street and ask, 'Where does Greg Iles live?' And they'll say, 'Oh, right over there; just go knock on the door.' I've had people just walk into my office, walk into my house like it's a museum just open to the public.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wild to be visiting New York and crossing the street and having someone yell out at me, 'Hey, Rusty!' Or to be recognized when I go out as 'the kid on 'Major Crimes.''
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020