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“Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!”

“Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.”

Trying Groups Streets Middle Fronts Comfort News Brave Appearance Good News Knots Sidewalk Porch Front Porches

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.”

Men Play Kids Sports Poor Streets Golf Tennis Boxing Poor Man It Is What It Is

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.”

Looks Important Care President Class Clear Environment Economic Streets Middle Policy Health Wall Areas Congress Protection Recovery Reform Health Care Middle Class Economic Recovery

Author:Barack Obama

“Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.”

Ifs Children Stills Happens Mother Sides Streets Baby Crosses Eight Nine Acknowledge Peers

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”

People School Remember Justice Streets Died Vain Soil Native

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.”

Streets Building Ugly Noble Broads Squares Statues Liverpool

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.”

People Men Character America Streets He Man Intellectual South Good Will Ambassadors South America Unconventional

Author:Orson Welles

“London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”

Men Want Whole Cities Streets New York Remains Clubs London Fortresses

Book:The cart and the horse

Source: The cart and the horse

“Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.”

Giving House Numbers Cities Streets Identity Intention Beloved Numerals

Author:Toni Morrison

“Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.”

People Art Two Turns Space Environment Streets Capacity Surface Sculpture Confined Installation

Author:Mark Jenkins

“There is no need for the street lights in the Street of Love; all is already bright in there!”

Love Needs Light Streets Street Lights

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?”

Children Play Would Be Running Kids Grows Growing Up Streets Ocean Mexico Privileged Better Place Neighbour Running Free

Author:Salma Hayek

“Go to the streets that you have never been to! Wander in the places that you have never known! There is light in the hidden corners of life too! Expand your frontiers and the frontiers will expand you!”

Life Light Known Streets Corners Wander Frontiers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!”

Life Walks Streets Touch Someone

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.”

“If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.”

Ifs Love Ability Economy Influence Streets Wall Keys Portions Commodity Components Housing Housing Market

Author:Carl Levin

“Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.”

Thinking Light Song Lost Sound Morning Alive Air Tree Streets Cold One Day Spring Wake Up Rose Winter Hills Bites Mud Freeze Cherries Robins Tick Cherry Trees Bingo Morning Air Cold Morning

Author:Andrew Schneider

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”

Country Boys Streets Noise Crowded Filth Elasticity Country Boy Crowded Streets

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.”

Ifs Knows Mean Long Important Care Guy Streets My Friends Average Don't Care I Don't Care Family And Friends Vicious What's Important

Author:Don Rickles

“I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.”

“In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.”

Wells Littles Art Culture Lost Stuff Poor Streets Walking Eating Speed Driving Fuel Als Disorder Nutrition Workplace Norm Surfing Obesity Eating Disorder Tolls Dining Eating Well Surfing The Web

Author:Carl Honore

“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.”

Ifs Stills Week Streets Paid Green Winter Firm Lots Of Money Bowling Paid Off Scaffolding

Author:Jamie Sives

“The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.”

People Writing Secret Forever Streets Car Judging Wall Police Method Prison Surface Cells Jail Covered Cop Prison Cells Police Cars

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.”

Four Week Streets Six Clothes East Village Riding Cop Vests East Village

Author:Jason Wiles

“There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.”

Ifs Teach Streets Sesame Street

Author:Sarah Churchwell

“I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.”

Way Trying Games Winning Realizing Streets Cat My Way Hustle Mansions

Author:Ice T

“Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.”

Way Stories Streets Rap Saved My Way Rap Music

Author:Ice T

“The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.”

Want Doe Problem Government Political Results Class Streets Wall Bigger Climate Access Controlled Federal Government Donors

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Motivating yourself, I think having big strong legs, that's pretty cool. Having a big VMOs [the teardrop-shaped muscle above your knee] is always nice. But, the thing is, when you see guys who are clearly gym junkies who only do bicep curls all day every day, and you see them walking down the street ...'Mate, what about the legs?'.”

Thinking Bigs Guy Strong Nice Streets Walking Legs Knees Muscles Gym Mates Curls Junkie Teardrop Strong Legs

Author:Greg Rutherford

“I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Littles Bits Streets Walking Little Bit Splits Workout Daft

Author:Greg Rutherford

“I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.”

World Stills I Can Feelings Stars Walks Nice Streets Car Waste Bigger Sorry Really Nice Places In The World Feeling Sorry Nice Cars

Author:Steve Earle

“The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.”

Thinking Poor Rich Streets Wall Get Rich Occupy Wall Street

Author:Simon Baker

“Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.”

Art Ideas Natural Streets Communicate Mainstream Extensions Street Art

Author:Eric Drooker

“Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.”

People Mean Art Numbers Streets Wall Art Is Communicate Screens Magazines Bricks Animation Posters Large Numbers Brick Wall Magazine Covers

Author:Eric Drooker

“The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.”

Giving Art Real Reality Consciousness Streets Television Creating Alternatives These Days Diets Gossip Strict Creating Art Reality Television Celebrity Gossip

Author:Eric Drooker

“My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.”

Way Needs Wells Running Kids Found Party Streets Huge Grew Kings Drug Grew Up Dancing Accepted Being Cool Emulate Moxie

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.”

I Can Faces Dark Streets Who I Am Scar Brooklyn Dark Skinned Nappies

Author:Michael K. Williams

“The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows - I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.”

Knows Giving Children Shows Kids Today Wanted Know How Streets Give Me Drawing

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.”

People Knows Said Shows Together Lying Interesting Leader Groups Streets Middle Interesting Things Get Together

Author:Julian Bond

“The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.”

“There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.”

People Littles Problem Artist Actors Secret Known Streets Musician Physicist Marketplace Problem Solvers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.”

Ifs Said Government Happens Violence Streets Gun

Author:Slaine

“Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.”

People Ifs Trying States Streets Shooting Canada Brazil Sneak

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Cities Streets Grew Grew Up Corners Cinema Obsessed Know Me Addict Street Corners

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.”

Ifs Kind Play Running Jobs Fun One Thing Streets Mail Goofy

Author:Bill Murray

“A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.”

People Mind Used Actors Enjoy Watches Struggle Impossible Streets Train Reactions Behaviour Looking Back

Author:Javier Bardem

“I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.”

People Want Streets Movement Wall Barack Viewers Anarchist Nancy Occupy Wall Street

Author:Katie Pavlich

“I am aware that I am extremely fortunate that I was born to parents who had the personal resources to raise me in a relatively safe environment and that I have some social supports that keep me from the streets. I'm aware that I could easily be in their stead, but there by the grace of luck go I.”

Social Parent Born Support Environment Grace Streets Safe Resources Raises Luck Fortunate Safe Environment

Author:Marilyn Dumont

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