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“In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.”

Mind Facts Technology Streets Modern Arguing Advertising Brands Site Location Associates Equity One Word

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Helping Hell Streets Old Lady

Author:Michael Shannon

“But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.”

Stills Ends Mother House Streets Grew Grew Up Corners Dead Ends

Author:Mink Stole

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.”

People Feels Difficult Streets

Author:Audrey Tautou

“In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.”

Men Inspiration Certain Father Term Streets Style New York Stones Sexuality Suits Range Masculinity Handsome Sharon Handsome Men

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.”

Littles Might Bits White Pieces Nice Streets Fashion Example Little Bit Unique Dresses Dinner Shirts Pairs Trends Mixtures Jackets Really Nice Trainers Vintage Nike High Fashion White Shirts

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.”

Problem Film Streets Industry Contemporary Chinese Movie Industry

Author:Paz Vega

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

Trying Ideas Would Be Three Decision Careers Streets Cards Naive Strategic Canals

Author:Benjamin Walker

“I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.”

People Kind School Bits Support Streets Excited London Unusual Support You Too Cool

Author:David Walliams

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.”

Ifs Way Would Be Streets Roots Coronation

Author:Jack Wild

“Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?”

Should Form Fate Economic Streets Masters Wall Sovereignty

Author:Thomas Frank

“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.”

People Has Beens Stills Two Rooms Saws Week Streets Proud Seasons Theater Come Up Compliment Exposed Broadway Living Room

Author:Megan Hilty

“With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."”

Ifs Thinking Men Actors Streets Texas Southern Georgia

Author:Lucas Till

“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!”

Mind Dark Streets Car Enlightening Illumination Illuminating Headlights

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.”

Thinking Mean Persons Streets Media Wall Pages Angry Wings Administration Mainstream Journal Foxes Right Wing Editorials Mainstream Media Wall Street Journal Angry Person

Author:Al Franken

“Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.”

Character Kids Guy Girl Streets Adventure Hero My Favorite Princess Odds Rats Unbelievable Animation Really Cool Robins Genies Lead Characters Disney Animation

Author:Zachary Levi

“Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.”

Kids Today Streets Hero Tomorrow Criminals Yesterday Wander Wandering Around

Author:Bernard Marcus

“The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.”

Names Left Sides Streets

Author:Charles C. Mann

“The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.”

People Ifs Two Week Streets Normal Six Series Surprising Two Weeks

Author:Paul McGann

“Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.”

Men Poor Streets Dangerous Car Occupation Bus Riding Traffic Competing Bicycle Chaotic Transport Poor Man Bombay Riding A Bicycle Lorry

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.”

Home Streets Massive Urban Shoppers Topshop

Author:Sophie McShera

“Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.”

Streets New York Surreal

Author:Sophie McShera

“As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.”

Men Kind Reason Problem Growing Up Growing Streets Caught All Kinds Caught Up Gang

Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.”

Looks Used Streets Advertising Fighter Poetry Is Manipulation Elbows Street Fighter Good Poetry

Author:David Whyte

“I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.”

Firsts Art Light Used Night Evil Felt Walks Sun Streets Empty London Dawn Apocalypse Zombie All Night Residents Imitating Zombie Apocalypse Up All Night Empty Streets Resident Evil

Author:Edgar Wright

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”

Use Shows Jobs Used Careers Streets Wall Degrees Connections Athlete Credit Hated League Score No Money Ivy Professional Athlete Ivy League Dartmouth Credit Scores

Author:Brian J. White

“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”

Art Walks Streets Masterpiece

Author:Allan Kaprow

“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.”

Streets Summer Hot Caught Dust Fallen Breeze Fallen Leaves Summer Breeze

Author:Scott Hastie

“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.”

Helping Artist Vision Morning Streets Minutes Subjects Painting Photographer Thirty Sunday Significance Discovering Sunday Morning

Author:Robert Adams

“Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.”

Hate Left Growing Streets Tears Size Scales Violent Scope Unprecedented

Author:Glenn Beck

“Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.”

People Ifs Thinking Play Streets Capitalist Drag

Author:Glenn Beck

“Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.”

Firsts Made Animal Support Streets Saving Buying Shops Pet Treatment Vegetarian Farms Factories Shelter Homeless Adopting Treatment Of Animals Animal Shelter

Author:Laura Mennell

“The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.”

Lying Sex Streets Data Chicago Cop Arrested Don't Lie

Author:Steven Levitt

“Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.”

Giving School Spirit Poverty Streets Broken Giving Up Corruption Midst Tempted

Book:Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

Source: Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.”

People Needs Running Political Fighting Teach Streets Revolution Arms Structure International Revolutionary Pigs Organize Up And Down Resisting Political Power Reactionaries

Author:Fred Hampton

“I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.”

Real Feelings Remember House Streets Car Broken Beats Scared Anarchy Bike Stolen Detroit Sidewalk Unsafe

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

Shows Kids Earth Mother Music Streets Honest Dad Kissing Daughter My Friends Being Honest My Daughter Buzz

Author:Ace Frehley

“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

Political Differences Saws Streets Movement Wall Response Objectives Spontaneous Outburst Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement

Author:David Harvey

“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.”

Ifs Way Action Political Deals Streets Movement Wall Unions Collaboration Political Action Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement

Author:David Harvey

“Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Years Realizing Streets Style Sticks Suits Classic Fabulous Items Old Lady Suits You

Author:Alexa Chung

“When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the UK and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.”

Different Walks Week Streets Fashion Paris Shops Fashion Week Paris Fashion

Author:Alexa Chung

“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.”

Different Seems Process Week Streets Fashion Style New York Humour London Constraints Fashion Week

Author:Alexa Chung

“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.”

Art Artist Streets Century Expression Wall Messages Art Is Freedom Of Expression Occupy Wall Street

Author:Peter M. Brant

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