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“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

Important Philosophy Sides Streets Opposites Guides

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.”

Thinking Looks Kind Has Beens Made Real Done Walks Streets Clothes Opposites Dresses Bubbles Ham Gaga

Author:Rihanna

“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

Ifs Life Matter Seems Life Is Streets Walking Crosses Opposites Obstacles Fewer Crowded Life Is Like Pavement Getting Along Crowded Streets

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.”

People Thinking Way Kind Made Life Is Streets Opposites Supposed To Be Rapper Imitating Back In The Day

Author:Rakim

“I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Should Years Mean Country Faces Dark One Thing Streets Built Opposites Slavery South Merit Bad Things Just Saying Posthumous

Author:Dave Zirin

“The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.”

Ifs Needs Running Streets Opposites Complicated Rap Plenty Budgets Expensive Documentation

Author:Frank Gehry

“People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.”

People Want Kind Said Past Walks Streets New York Opposites

Author:Frank Lampard

“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

“He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.”

Source: The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget