“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.” KnowsRealEndsGuyWinningStrongSportsHurtStreetsSmartBeatsToughWeakCleanRingsBoxingThe End Of The DayStrong WillBodyguardReal PowerTough Guy Author:Mike Tyson
“For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.” BookSometimesStreetsSmartTough Author:Whitey Herzog
“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
“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.” KnowsTryingUseValuesLeftLanguageCommonStreetsNew YorkFitToughCurseShockNeighborhoodHungVulgarShock Value Author:George Carlin
“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
“I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.” PeopleThinkingStreetsWallSmartToughMythAggressiveGreedyQuick Thinking Author:Ben Stein
“People do not want to be disillusioned by the new president [Barak Obama]. The liberals felt, finally, this is our time. Now they're worried. Now what they see is more business as usual. We all want to give him the benefit of the doubt, we know it's a tough job and he inherited a mess, but at the end of the day, is it really change we can believe in when there's no public options and Wall Street reform has no teeth in it? It really looks a lot like we just changed the color.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingBelieveLooksEndsJobsFeltPresidentDoubtStreetsChangedColorWallBenefitsToughTeethMessReformWorriedOur TimeThe End Of The DayUsualDisillusionedBenefit Of The DoubtBarak Obama Author:Bill Maher
“If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to dance like a tough kid on the street.” IfsKidsStreetsPositionToughFifth Author:Gene Kelly
“For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.” PeoplePersonsJobsUsedStreetsTelevisionBeatsJokesToughInnocentStationsOne TimeInnocent Person Author:Mr. T
“When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the really tough fighting and some of the other street fighting type moves. You know, where it's not just show. It's not dressing it up for the cameras too much. It's pretty down and dirty, the way it should be. That's something I like to do. I do that.” KnowsWayShouldKindCharacterStoriesShowsMovingFightingToo MuchStreetsTypeToughDown AndCamerasDirtyDressings Author:Dolph Lundgren
“It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.” StreetsPolicyToughMedicineMain Street Author:Rick Perry
“On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.” TurnsEconomicStreetsWallToughBlowThriveSchemes Author:James Surowiecki
“But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.” WayYearsEyeRiskAirStreetsWillingToughConnectionsWinterStrangerChristmasContactEnjoyedAvoidingNew YorkersSubwayElevatorsEye ContactDakota Book:Knit the Season Source: Knit the Season
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” PeopleLongWholeHomeWould BeTodayLawYoungPoliticalOrderSocialCommunityLeaderPracticeSupportImagineStreetsAchieveSecurityCrimeBenefitsToughResourcesCriticismLonelyRaisesThreatViolentVulnerableSuspectsScarRhetoricShut UpCultBullySocial SecurityElderlyLaw And OrderPolitical LeadersMatchedSocial ServicePredatoryYoung Life Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.” IfsWorldBelieveMeanStillsLightEyeStarsSidesBlackCitiesBoysStreetsLateShadowToughHatedSunsetToo LateOutsidersSomething BetterLiving OnPersonal ThingsBlack EyesStreet Lights Book:The Outsiders Source: The Outsiders