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“I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.”

Walks Wall Horse Accidents Ribs Bruised Snowboarding Concussions

Author:Mila Kunis

“No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.”

Knows Rooms Wall

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.”

Ifs Kind Dark Subjects Wall Approach Photography Shots Cameras Location Sneak

Author:Jessica Lange

“If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.”

Ifs Way Steps Wall One Way

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.”

Thinking Problem Space White Wall Blank White Space

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Streets Building Wall Empty Hey Thieves Housing Squatters

Author:Al Lewis

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.”

People Wall Holes Fancy Restaurants Trendy Cool People

Author:Tyra Banks

“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”

Mind Firsts Heart Wall Cold Musician Stones Iron Witch Heart And Mind Cold Heart Stone Walls

Author:Charles de Lint

“The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.”

Humans Has Beens War Peace Race Wall Illusion Stones Human Race Anti War Antiwar Policemen Stone Walls

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”

Christian Strong Church Prayer Wall Weapons Fortresses Christian Church

Author:Martin Luther

“You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.”

Knows Trying House Wall Toilets Superstar Disgusted Discs Platinum

Author:John Lydon

“The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.”

Ends Political Leader Streets Movement Wall Genius Flutes Political Movements Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement Good Political

Author:John Lydon

“I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.”

Jobs Streets Wall Odd Journal Delivering Plumbing Wall Street Journal Carpentry Odd Jobs

Author:David Lynch

“I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.”

Way Giving Inspiring Wall Musician Hitting Giving Way

Author:Gustav Mahler

“With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”

Artist Literature Wall Pride Blow Conformity Defiance Being Different Trumpets Non Conformity Wounded Pride

Book:The Deer Park: A Novel

Source: The Deer Park: A Novel

“Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.”

World Virtue Streets Wall Greed Corporate Employee Receiving Ceo Compensation Bankers

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.”

Ifs Men Walks Doors Wall Window Work Out Tattoo There Comes A Time

Author:Bernard Malamud

“An art book is a museum without walls.”

Art Book Wall Museums

Author:Andre Malraux

“Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.”

Rooms Wall Draws Leaving Me Crayon

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?”

Children Accepting Streets Wall Instruments Sells Mortgage Default Accept Me

Author:Steve Martin

“Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.”

Girl White Rooms Five Written Wall Paper Pages Paint Teenager Plastic Orange Notebook Scrap Tablets Napkins

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

“Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?”

Feels Children Kids Able Remember Used Wall Bed Used To Be Breathing Spinning

Author:Lynda Barry

“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.”

Trying Important Life Is Fun Process Loses Wall Lessons Let Me Important Things Life Lesson Bricks Learning Process Banging Learning Lessons Brick Wall Banging Your Head

Author:John McEnroe

“The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.”

Country Lasts America Political Wealth Principles Streets Wall Becoming Prosperity Protest Gaps Occupy Wall Street

Author:Jon Meacham

“When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.”

School Law Acting Streets College Wall My Friends Propositions Law School Meds

Author:Wentworth Miller

“The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.”

People Economy Streets Wall Percent Corporate Executives

Author:Michael Moore

“Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.”

Ifs Needs Faces Streets Movement Wall Meetings Corporate Boards Your Face Assault Campus Headquarters Board Meetings

Author:Michael Moore

“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.”

America Political Interest Party Share Streets Wall Republican Paid Democrat Corporate Wealthy Republican Party Political Parties Corporate America

Author:Michael Moore

“Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.”

Has Beens United Cases Share Streets Wall Citizens Politician Taxes Fairs Court Supreme Crash Supreme Court Arrested Fair Share Citizens United

Author:Michael Moore

“Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.”

Want Has Beens Able America Streets Wall Members Shots Congress Corporate Corporate America

Author:Michael Moore

“I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.”

Needs Acting Fashion Design Movement Wall Lows Magazines Artistic Performing Buying Department Plates Fashion Magazines

Author:Alanis Morissette

“If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.”

Ifs States President United United States Wall Borders Mexican Great Wall Mexican Border

Author:Dave Mustaine

“In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.”

Running Streets Wall Research Bigger Copies Ads Cents Journal Revenue Microsoft Market Research Wall Street Journal

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.”

Streets New York Wall Paper Eating Versions Journal New York Times Wall Street Journal

Author:Kevin Nealon

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”

Faces Courses History Wall Portraits Don't Change

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.”

Years Next Found Names Wall Kings Office Western Ancient Rings Officials Seals Jerusalem Hebrew

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”

People Ideas Wall Gun Bars African American

Book:The Huey P. Newton Reader

Source: The Huey P. Newton Reader

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

Life Enough Inspiration Wall Bridges Friendliness Heavenly Bodies Building Bridges Building Walls Bodies In Motion

Author:Joseph Fort Newton

“I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.”

Film Fantasy Wall Stairs Replica

Author:Gary Numan

“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

Life Life Is Wall Mirrors Cells Solitary

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”

Ifs Writing Stills Matter Space Behinds Silence Car Wall Walking No Matter What Driving Housework

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.”

“We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.”

Social Steps Streets Security Wall Promise Responsible Social Security

Author:Barack Obama

“It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.”

Behinds Liberty Sacrifice Wall Cherish Als Suspicion September Al Qaeda Mistrust

Author:Barack Obama

“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”

Ifs Thinking World Fear Painting Wall Staring Awe

Author:Conor Oberst

“I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.”

Kind Left My Own Wall Type Impact Legs Knees Knives Scar Olympics Angle Blades Thighs Skates

Author:Apolo Ohno

“Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.”

Dark Perfect Dog Wall Smart Army Brave Soldier Smell Complaints Rations

Author:Susan Orlean

“My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.”

Ifs Inspiration Father Challenges Attitude Break Wall Breaking Down Prevailing

Author:Donny Osmond

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