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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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- Dugout
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th Street. Three people showed up. One of them was an agent. It was my first agent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn't bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion's share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early '90s.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tonight Show' afforded us the opportunity to work with The Muppets and other ‘Sesame Street' characters, and we always had the desire to do something that spoke to young people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, 'Man, you killed it with Adele.'
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.
- Nov 07, 2020