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“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.”

“I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.”

People Thinking Feelings Able Together Found My Own Interesting Week Streets Stranger Disaster Scales Fake Related Really Interesting Manhattan

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.”

People Way Has Beens Two Ideas Real Fans Streets Modern Connections Supportive Feedback Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.”

People Mean Children Persons Government Might Care America Law Hate Streets Worst Ordinary Average Take Care Disagree Afghanistan Abandoned Slums Ordinary Person

Author:Immortal Technique

“I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.”

People Want Levels Streets Media Music Is Entertainment

Author:Rick Ross

“A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Happens Walks Streets Figures Things Happen Embarrassed Weird Things Laura Lorraine

Author:Annabella Sciorra

“You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.”

People Knows May Past Walks Streets Horror Shops

Author:Paddy Considine

“The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.”

People Knows Wells Doe Certain House Streets Advantage Hats

Author:Coco Chanel

“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.”

People Men World Believe May Belief Poor Forever Knowing Streets He Man Arms Creatures Doctrine Not Knowing Uncertain Wounded Powerless

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.”

People Looks Found Streets Sentences Prose Copies Pauses Stopping

Author:Margot Livesey

“All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.”

People Men Sometimes Seems Voice Streets New York He Man Addiction Obsession Clamor Stimulants

Author:Marya Mannes

“My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.”

People Wanted America Gone Streets Gold Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.”

People Knows Kind Hands Chance Streets Like You Stores Screens

Author:Andre Benjamin

“I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.”

People Ifs Firsts Jobs Streets First Time Fake Confused

Author:CM Punk

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.”

“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.”

People World Character Stories Faces Song Alive Streets New York Adventure Thousand Pure Incredibles Block Encounters Los Angeles Fewer Automobile

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.”

People Ends Today Cities Taken Streets Barbarism City Streets

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.”

People Streets Crime Cost Corporate Corporations More Money Taxpayers

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.”

People Ifs Two Government Fighting Mistake Responsibility Streets Crime Faults Criminals Educated Making Mistakes Fraud Inadequate Incompetent

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?”

People States America Choices Father Sleep Streets Arguing Homeless Grate

Author:Patti Davis

“Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.”

People Knows Way Littles Two Secret Knowing Streets Fame Scary Likes Gossip Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Ally Sheedy

“It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.”

People Ifs Hard Chance Streets Hair Bottom Ass Kicks Punk Bells Chances Are Short Hair

Author:John Roecker

“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.”

“Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.”

People Whole Opportunity Interest Can Do Space Seeing Streets Neighborhood Buoys

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.”

People Writing Wanted Song House Names Stuff My Own Five Happened Streets Six Intention Albums Studios Release Fighter Writing Songs Demos Foo Fighters

Author:Dave Grohl

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.”

People Want Writing Mean Stories Care Guy Stuff Saws Nice Streets My Friends Cute I Care Puppy Really Nice Nice Guy Cute Puppy Funny Stuff

Author:Tucker Max

“We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect to put it together. Why wouldn't we be wanting to get some information that could actually prevent a terrorist attack, especially since we have so many individuals fighting that have passports coming back and spreading jihad.”

People Needs Able Together Fighting Asks Individual Streets Information Active Terrorist Suspects Coming Back Passports Jihad Terrorist Attacks

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Book Feelings Happens Reading Stars Walks Too Much Wonderful Written Streets Tvs Train Planes Movie Star Airports Bookstores

Author:Rick Riordan

“I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.”

People Knows Trying Firsts Stills I Can Ideas Sometimes Dream Able Remember Feet Streets Car Walking Dancing Los Angeles Remember When Tap Dancing

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.”

“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”

“What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.”

People Thinking Matter Community Streets Cancer What Matters Cycling

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?”

“Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.”

People Children War Government Parent Forget Poverty Streets Members Caring Bridges Welfare Decent Our Society Efficient Household Frightening Wages Emergencies Garbage

Book:PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

“People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!”

People Wells Running Used Four Impossible Streets Crowds Call Me Gauntlet

Author:Sean Connery

“The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.”

People Want Trying Real Helping Guy Christ Church Streets Sunday Be You Live Your Life Countenance Church On Sunday

Author:Jim Caviezel

“After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'”

People Bigs Streets Brother Shouting

Author:Vinnie Jones

“As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.”

People Trying Morning Streets Fronts Adults Competition Crowds Bars Fats Hey Quarters Costumes Tuesday Early Morning Bourbon French Quarter Bourbon Street

Author:Bryan Batt

“In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.”

People World Care Dies Accepting Streets Take Care Pace

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.”

People Needs Wells Kids Responsibility Streets Dog Work Out Personal Responsibility

Author:Betty White

“There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'”

People Way Should Writing Remember Film Community Pay Streets Strange Horror One Day Six Corners Scary Cinema Centre Horror Film Around The Corner Queues

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.”

People Ifs Looks Night Order Next House Animal Morning Streets Flower Holland Glisten

Author:Felix Marti-Ibanez

“I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.”

People Thinking Way Done Lying Streets Protect Chasing Rumor Blogging Hacking Street Life Spreading Rumors

Author:Ali MacGraw

“You go outside with me right now, we'll ask twelve people on the street what they think about Jews. And all I need's one.”

People Thinking Needs Asks Streets Right Now Jew Twelve

Author:Roy Payne

“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.”

People Ifs Knows Want Mean Stills Use Feelings Today Political Religion Plans Streets Wall Shooting Bombing Systems Change

Author:John Lennon

“People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.”

People Trying Millions Streets Ten Bounds Excited

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.”

People Trying Littles Country Sometimes Hard Remember Fighting Strong Forget Boys Streets Achieve Inspire Meals Never Forget Stay Strong Little Boys

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.”

People Perfect Streets Bird Harmony Monsters Perfect Harmony Sesame Street

Author:Phil Donahue

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