Streets Quotes
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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
Richard Pryor
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
Emily Dickinson
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If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
T Bone Burnett
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I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.
David Wojnarowicz
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I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.
Michael Trevino
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
Sarah Dessen
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The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
Michael K. Williams
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I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
William Eggleston
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Tommy Chong
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Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.
Nipsey Hussle
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I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres
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It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.
Eleanor Clark
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Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
Theresa May
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The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
Michel Platini
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Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High
Slick Rick
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You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Bob Marley
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More
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The street finds its own uses for things.
William Gibson
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I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.
Asmaa Mahfouz
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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.
Allen Tate
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.
Charles Dickens
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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman