Streets Quotes
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When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.
Sophie McShera
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.
Michael D. Barnes
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
William Faulkner
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
Mickey Kaus
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Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.
Sophie McShera
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.
Carrot Top
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If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams
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I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
Cass McCombs
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One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
Hermann Hesse
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I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.
Michael Servetus
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Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.
Hilary Mantel
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I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.
Michelle Tea
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Raymond Chandler
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker
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I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
Wesley Willis
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Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
Alice Cooper
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If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.
Allan Jacobs
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I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
Casey Affleck
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I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.
Pete Yorn
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We march in the streets, but we will also march to the voting booth in November.
Eliseo Medina
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
Michael Cunningham
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
Jonathan Swift
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I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
Michael Burry