“All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.” PeopleWayGivingCareAmericaDemocracyStreetsMiddleEastHealth CareMiddle East Author:Bill Maher
“The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look exactly the same. Take people off the street, 'Hey, hey, hey, what is this?! I don't wanna be in the luge!' Once you put that helmet on them, 'You're in the luge, buddy!' 'aaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAA... aaaAAAAA...' World record. Didn't even wanna do it. I'd like to see that next Olympics, the Involuntary Luge.” PeopleWorldLooksNextRecordsStreetsEventsHeyOlympicsCompetingBuddyHelmetInvoluntaryWorld Records Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“When people show me pictures of their kids, it's okay. But when I give them a picture of me, to show to their kids, I'm weird. What kind of one way street is that?” PeopleWayGivingKindShowsKidsStreetsOkayOne WayShow Me Author:Demetri Martin
“Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.” PeopleWayDoeMatterRealizingStreetsDesignSafeCleanGrantedParksBicycleLanes Author:Michael Bloomberg
“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindDifferentBigsRememberCertainCoursesCitiesKnownClearStreetsNew YorkBuildingHugeWalkingMetsLonelyTerrorCrowdsBroadwayFamiliarityNew YorkersCities In The WorldSo Lonely Author:Benny Goodman
“People who are homeless, they're not all addicts. A lot of times, they're just people who, through something like losing their job or losing someone in their life, ended up on the streets. So much of our time is spent in cars that sometimes you need to look out of those windows. And you see that a dollar, 50 cents, whatever you have, may not mean much to you, but it means everything to people who are hungry and who are in need.” PeopleNeedsLooksMayMeanSometimesJobsStreetsCarLosingWindowDollarsHungryOur TimeCentsHomelessAddictLosing Someone Author:George Lopez
“I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.” PeopleTryingSpiritFunCausesPartyTroubleStreetsMovementArmsRight NowStressGreenAccomplishExpectedCorporateVotingStrongestCynicalGlobalizationMushroomsSeattleInsurrectionGreen Party Author:Jello Biafra
“When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.” PeopleDifferentCultureSpeakStreetsMiddleSixMassSevenSakeMaking MoneyDishesLongevityAristocracyStrategistUndermining Author:Chuck D
“There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.” PeopleGivingMeanTogetherFightingLostStreetsCatPartnersGang Author:Barry White
“There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.” PeopleKnowsKindBookDifferentStreetsComputerSmartDifferent KindsStreet Smart Author:J. B. Smoove
“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsEndsHomeLostPleasurePartyStreetsMovementMonthsDecidedSightNotesSevenFollowingStrangerTraveledSeven YearsBack HomeVeniceJanuary Author:Sophie Calle
“I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsBigsWaitingStreetsComfortableCamerasLazyFreakBig ThingsSnapshots Author:Nikki S. Lee
“Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.” PeopleWayKindLittlesTwoAbleStreetsPercentCamerasReactionsThrowingTwo WaysGemsGrabbingPortraitureFluencyTwo Way Street Author:Albert Watson
“If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.” PeopleIfsLittlesWalksBehindsLeaderStreetsBuildingConcernGlassesGet BetterHidingSteelBodyguard Author:Bruce Boxleitner
“I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.” PeopleGivingWantedAmericaYoungSituationOpinionStreetsInvitedJuvenileDelinquencyJuvenile Delinquency Author:Eartha Kitt
“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesMovingUniverseNumbersStreetsPolicyDesignWallIndustryOughtMessagesRelationTiesDepartmentCommentAcademicEconomistSkepticalTanksThumbsCaptivesPublic RelationsPublic PolicyAnalystsMerchandise Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingBookDifferentReasonWholeNaturalWalksWonderStreetsJudgingGayInstinctFingersNatural InstinctKilts Author:Kid Cudi
“I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.” PeopleEndsRunningUsedTroubleFansStreetsHorriblePunkBowie Author:Gary Numan
“Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.” PeopleLooksRealBigsAmericaStuffPayAttentionBoysStreetsBrotherMessagesYeahRapPay AttentionFbiHoodComptonReal StuffLapd Author:Eazy-E
“In my dream I hadn't arrived at this street yet; this was just downloaded to me as this woman mentioned only the street name. It reminded me of hearing the words "Disneyland" and how we are instantly filled with joy and recognize it as a happy place full of fun. The words "Media Spring Street" created a movement of its own. When people just simply heard "Media Spring Street" it was like catching a wave of God and you wanted to get there as fast as you could!” PeopleDreamWantedJoyNamesFunHeardStreetsMediaMovementSpringFilledWaveHearingCatchingDisneylandHappy Place Author:Julie Smith
“It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.” PeopleWorldDifferentTurnsStuffLevelsSkyStreetsKeysLimitsLowsAdvantageMainstreamDifferent WorldsBuzzLow KeySaturationSky Is The Limit Author:Joe Budden
“Sometimes the messages I put out are somewhat of that [street] nature, but the thing is, that's not the person, it's just like an actor or something. It's just like when Wesley Snipes is not [the character he played in] 'New Jack City,' but a lot of people get it twisted. They think, 'That's that guy. That's that dude. That's how he roll.' But man, that's definitely not how I roll. I believe in God. I'm a Christian... People always trying to stereotype people because of their job.” PeopleThinkingMenTryingBelievePersonsSometimesCharacterChristianJobsGuyActorsI BelieveCitiesStreetsMessagesI Believe InBelieve In GodStereotypeTwistedAlways TryingThat GuyI Believe In God Author:Project Pat
“I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.” PeopleWayStuffStreetsMiddleCarExcuseExcuse Me Author:Bill Murray
“I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.” PeopleGivingEndsJusticeStreetsPleaseDemandWestOccupationPakistanIsraeliDemonstrationGazaClinicSewageSaying PleaseIsraeli OccupationSign Sayings Author:Robert Fisk
“I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to show people that if some activists, if some revolutionaries, if some street organizers from the hood can come together and put together a preliminary program to give health care to independent artists.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingShowsCareTogetherArtistPlansStreetsMovementProgramIndependentUnionsHealth CareRevolutionaryKicksActivistHoodOrganizerGrassroots Author:Immortal Technique
“It was a proud moment in giving me the confidence, that I was 'stamped' in the offices as much, you know, as I would get from the streets. To where it's like I'm getting the love from the streets and from the people in the building - and that's kinda dope.” PeopleKnowsGivingMomentsStreetsBuildingProudOfficeDopeProud Moments Author:Kid Ink
“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.” PeopleStillsSpeakLanguageStreetsMusic IsEssenceFolksHip HopHipsHopsZeroFolk MusicGround Zero Author:Talib Kweli
“I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.” PeopleThinkingHomeKidsSchoolArtistClassStreetsMiddleTrackMiddle ClassHoodDopeWalesCool Kid Author:SonReal
“People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!'” PeopleStreetsHey Author:Kevin Hart
“One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'” PeopleShouldHateWifeStreetsLove YouLike YouComplimentHate YouSay I Love YouGood Wife Author:Nathan Lane
“Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?” PeopleIfsWantHomeSocialIssuesStreetsSecurityDown AndSeniorSocial SecurityNursingEntitlementMedicareNursing Home Author:Sheila Jackson Lee
“I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.” PeopleStreetsHolidayScottishBlackpool Author:Charlie Adam
“I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.” PeopleWayI CanWalksTeachStreetsStudentsPraiseKicksHelloTorontoSaying Hello Author:Michael Ignatieff
“This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.” PeopleKnowsMenWantLongWalksStreetsYeahGreat ThingsIrelandGolfersNorthern Ireland Author:Rory McIlroy
“Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.” PeopleBookEarthFallHouseStarsBornSleepSpaceRoomsSunAirStreetsLonelinessKeysCloudsSpeedChecksFlightHipsBeerSeatsBagsHotelCustomsEnginesAirplanePacksTicketsThirstAirportsBeltsFatigueStairsStrollingTaxiDescentAnnouncementsVisaOthernessSeat BeltsImmunizationStewardess Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.” PeopleWalksStreetsReadyRewards Author:Malcolm X
“We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two.” PeopleTwoGovernmentFormStreetsInformationReadyMonthsSittingArmyWelcomeParisNew GovernmentAmerican ArmyStreets Of Paris Author:Dick Cheney
“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsWaitingWorryFireDoorsStreetsTvsMachinesArmyScaredLondonBreathing Author:Charlie Brooker
“Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice.” PeopleLooksGuyStreetsStyleStartingNflNbaMultipleDapper Author:Cam Newton
“If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.” PeopleIfsStreetsIndiaCleanMarsColonyExpenditures Author:Narendra Modi
“I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantNeedsGivingCountrySidesStreets Author:Debby Ryan
“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.” PeopleWellsTwoCitiesMorningEnvironmentStreetsStrangeComfortEmptyDancingClubsClockThemeAestheticGoing OutUrbanDesolateEmpty StreetsUrban Environment Author:Moby
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.” PeopleGivingFactsSongNextSpeakBitsAbilityNumbersAudienceFocusStreetsStupidPlanetsSkillsOrdinaryGive MeSettingSettingsAcquireConcentrationRealisingPausesKeyboardsDisillusionNew SkillsAbility To Speak Author:Susan Schneider
“For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWishSportsMy OwnImagineStreetsTvsBattleObsessionDemonImagine ThatCompulsionWish YouLiving On Author:Jess Walter
“I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.” PeopleNeedsArtI CanStreets Author:Etgar Keret
“There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.” PeopleIfsWantSchoolNamesStreetsSlaverySouthReconciliation Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantPersonsImportantLawExistenceCrazyStreetsCarCrossesDecidedAskingAssumingIntimacyDependentTraffic Author:Claudia Rankine
“Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't know what you're fighting for, how do you know when you've got victory? In some ways, new media makes it easier for people to connect. It's hard, though, because we're much more seduced by the Internet, by big-screen TVs, by cell phones that can do everything.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHardProblemBigsFightingCan DoClearStreetsMediaTvsWallInternetVictoryEasierFolksPhonesScreensCellsDo You KnowCell PhoneBig ScreenNew MediaOccupy Wall Street Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.” PeopleGivingWantedUsedStreetsDrugProtectGive MeSpendingReputationOccasionsShoppingCopPursesBotox Author:Michelle Tea
“Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.” PeopleKnowsWayThreeTalkingStreetsWalkingPhotographyPolaroids Author:Laurel Nakadate