“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.” PeopleLittlesProblemArtistActorsSecretKnownStreetsMusicianPhysicistMarketplaceProblem Solvers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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.” PeopleIfsTryingStatesStreetsShootingCanadaBrazilSneak Author:Robert Pattinson
“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.” PeopleMindUsedActorsEnjoyWatchesStruggleImpossibleStreetsTrainReactionsBehaviourLooking 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.” PeopleWantStreetsMovementWallBarackViewersAnarchistNancyOccupy Wall Street Author:Katie Pavlich
“When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.” PeopleTwoLibertyStreetsMinutesMy FamilyLovelyPoliteHelloAlright Author:Ray Winstone
“The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsLooksHandsBitsRealizingHappenedStreetsFameFirst TimeTinyShakesAnnoyingBeing FamousDisgustedTurned OffAnnoying Things Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I've always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.” PeopleLittlesKidsSchoolStreetsHigh SchoolLikesFreakLittle KidWeirdo Author:Marc Maron
“It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.” PeopleThinkingMenWould BeCommunityPowerfulStreetsPositionGayNotionIdiotProductiveHelpfulComing OutLiving OnGay MenPreconceived Notions Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.” PeopleThinkingBelieveJesusI BelieveGroupsStreetsLove YouMessagesCrossesJewSentimentalCagesOffendedObservingNeighbourBeggarCatalystTorah Author:Madonna Ciccone
“When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.” PeopleThinkingEasyChallengesGreaterStreetsMarriedHarderEasy Street Author:Morris Chestnut
“How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.” PeopleHelpingCommunityMillionsStreetsLovely Author:Assata Shakur
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.” PeopleThinkingShouldGovernmentKidsFightingStreetsDrugStonesDrivenRelatedBelongingBetter PlacePlaces To LivePavingFighting Each Other Author:Ashley Walters
“When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingPersonsDifferentCharacterHomeRunningWalksAttitudeStreetsOur FamilyHoodCuz Author:Curtis Jackson
“I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.” PeopleHateOne ThingStreetsMusic IsI HateLoyalDisloyal Author:Schoolboy Q
“The streets helps you a lot in music, cause it let's you know that you can't trust nobody and that nobody's gonna wait for you. You can't just sit there with dope in your pocket and think that people are gonna come to you. You gotta put the product out there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHelpingCausesWaitingStreetsProductsPocketsDopeTrust Nobody Author:Schoolboy Q
“I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.” PeopleI CanKidsStreetsWanderParksRestaurantsTrailsCollecting Author:Johnny Carson
“I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.” PeopleFeelsTryingFilmStreetsFashionEdgesHood Author:Gucci Mane
“When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.” PeopleWayLooksLittlesEnoughStoriesUsedFallBitsHeardStreetsReadyLittle BitCrossesCarefulBonesUsed To BeMusclesInjuryUp And DownStairsCrossingsOlder People Author:Buzz Aldrin
“One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" [movie], the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.” PeopleFirstsFilmMovingProcessAudienceGoneOne ThingCrazyStreetsMembersMoving ForwardUpliftingEnjoyedPirate Author:Johnny Depp
“What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.” PeopleStillsLife IsGuyMy OwnCommonStreetsWalkingThis GuyMy Own LifeBrad Author:Dave Chappelle
“No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.” PeopleWarBodyStreetsAmountMusic IsBags Author:Eddie Vedder
“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.” PeopleHomeNightCertainOrderCommunityRoomsNumbersStreetsFitRacismMetaphorHighwaysInfrastructurePublic LifeClassism Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.” PeopleThinkingWorldHomeTodayImagineStreetsWindowNightmareAirportsStay At Home Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.” PeopleKnowsImportantNextRaceDoorsStreetsNeighbor Author:Maya Angelou
“If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.” PeopleIfsYearsWould BeLastsAbilityStreetsLast YearShoutingDefibrillators Author:Atul Gawande
“It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.” PeopleYearsChildrenLeaderStreetsSurvivalPicksGunCarefulWideIntimateRebelSomalia Author:K'naan
“I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.” PeopleTryingHas BeensMatterAgeSchoolFireStreetsGunKillingAccidentsNineDestroyedFortunateSectionsCousinExplosionsIncidentsMy CousinGrenadeMatter Of Time Author:K'naan
“If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.” PeopleIfsGivingShowsTogetherCoursesAsksWalksSupportStreetsConditionsDaughterGive MeRestaurantsDesperateExpensiveShow MeAutographsThis SocietyWalletsSupport YouSupport MePradaArmani Author:Ai Weiwei
“It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealTalkingKnow HowCrazyStreetsMovementReflectionRadio Author:Saul Williams
“I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.” PeopleThinkingWayBeliefWalksShareStreetsMiddleWalkingThousandBest Way Author:Rebecca Solnit
“God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets.” PeopleKnowsI CanHumorSeemsFunnyUsedGuySidesRealizingTalkingLeaderCrazyStreetsWalkingOne DayConversationProphetManhattanReluctant Author:Marc Maron
“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.” PeopleFeelsKindWholeAgeFeltSidesMy OwnGenerationsStreetsResponsibleComplicatedConnectedShockVietnamBeing ThereMy GenerationPilgrimageEmpatheticComplicated RelationshipHanoi Author:Anne Waldman
“Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.” PeopleMenFacesViolenceRiskStreetsDangerParticularGenderEnormousShelterHomelessExposureTransHarassmentInaccessible Author:Dean Spade
“I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.” PeopleThinkingWantKindEnergyStreetsMusic IsProvokingGangsta Author:Fashawn
“As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't want to be really famous. I don't want people to stop me in the street. I want to just enjoy the work, work with lovely people, work on good quality sport and get to experience some more of these amazing moments.” PeopleWantLongMomentsSportsEnjoyQualityWonderfulStreetsEventsLovelyGood QualitySporting Events Author:Jill Douglas
“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.” PeopleDifferentStreetsGrewGrew UpCamerasInspiredVideoDifferent ThingsRiotLettermanVideo CamerasRockefeller Center Author:Tom Green
“It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsDifferentHelpingFeelingsTogetherStreetsUniversalCome UpThemeAll Alone Author:Molly Ringwald
“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.” PeopleIfsRunningUsedAsksParentStreetsNew YorkFakeIf I CouldBusWeekendSlipsRunning AwayPermissionMidnightBaltimoreSororityGreyhoundsGreyhound Bus Author:John Waters
“I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.” PeopleKnowsDoneStreetsAppreciateReputationFactorsCredibilityRespect Me Author:Lennox Lewis
“I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them.” PeopleWantFeelsHomeRememberGuyFiveFansStreetsWalkingJokesComing HomeInvitesAdamRemember WhenSandwichesClicks Author:Kate Beckinsale
“I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?” PeoplePersonsEnjoyLove IsTalkingStreetsMy FamilyRadioClubsSpendingNonsenseNeighbourBotheredSpending TimePaparazziShowbizCoronationNot BotheredTalking Nonsense Author:Tony Blackburn
“I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.” PeopleWayWantFeelsLooksLongReasonHomeRememberYoungGuyFiveFansStreetsMinesWalkingJokesShakesComing HomeFrightenedInvitesAdamRemember WhenLong WaySandwichesRespectfulClicksReally Long Author:Colin Farrell
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.” PeopleWayFeelsSaidHelpingEyeFallRealizingFourStreetsCarToughIllnessCornersMy WayHelp MeSlipsTough TimesSlipperyKnocked Down Author:Lou Gehrig
“People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenGivingWellsSometimesFactsMightAbleAmericaSongAsksFoundWhiteAnswersWeekStreetsCarLosingAsk MeFortunateSandWhite ManConductorInconvenientHogDisgracefulLess FortunateBurrowing Author:Bert Williams
“I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.” PeopleKnowsNiceHappenedStreetsFameRelateStardom Author:Steve McQueen
“I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYoungStreetsWallPressureJournalistFactoriesAlabamaUnder Pressure Author:Jayson Blair
“But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.” PeoplePoliticalGroupsEconomicStreetsWallNewsCodeThroatGood NewsCountrysideExclusionZips Author:Jim Hightower
“When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.” PeopleThinkingCoursesBlackWalksStreetsToiletsThink Of MePubs Author:Steve McQueen
“I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHandsFallLinesStreetsFashionImportanceWornSynagogueHigh FashionYom Kippur Author:Rachel Zoe