Streets Quotes
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I go out in the streets, and I go to shows, and I see my fans turn from "I like your last rap" to "I feel your movement; you're keeping it all the way real." One thing I've always said is that's never been my story, and I'm not going to go back on my word.
Hakeem Seriki
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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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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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Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
Stephen Carter
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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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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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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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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 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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The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
Michel Platini
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
Theresa May
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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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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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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The street finds its own uses for things.
William Gibson
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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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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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When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
Bernie Glassman
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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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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother Teresa
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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman
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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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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