- People
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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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- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My coverage of Antifa has been critical: not just critical of the hooliganism and the street violence because violence, of course, is easy to condemn. I am critical of the underlying ideology as well.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
- Logical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020