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“I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.”

“My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”

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Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.”

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Author:Saint Patrick

“I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.”

“I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'”

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Author:Karl Pilkington

“If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.”

Ifs Night Morning Four Week Wall Nine Staring Nothingness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'”

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Author:Colin Powell

“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”

People Thinking Wells Seeing Streets Wall Unhappy Our Society Unhappiness Occupy Wall Street

Author:Colin Powell

“My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.”

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Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

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Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”

Writing Rich Strange Painting Wall Empty Opposites Juicy

Author:Tom Robbins

“In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

Heart Earth Simple Forever Pieces Source Wall Shining Sunlight Borrowed Splendor

Book:The Pocket Rumi

Source: The Pocket Rumi

“I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.”

“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?”

Streets Wall Fine Greedy Reckless

Author:Bernie Sanders

“You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.”

Knows Way Want Streets Wall Raises Speculation Transactions Fees Curb

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.”

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Author:Luc Besson

“One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.”

Ifs Hands Tvs Wall Mom Window My Mom Warm One Time Cords

Author:Akiva Schaffer

“It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.”

House White Fans Wall Extraordinary Warm Expected White House Being There Artwork Louvre

Author:Jill Scott

“I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put you all back in chains.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”

Sound Silence Written Wall Words Of Wisdom Quiet Words Prophet Halls Whispering Subway Graffiti Tenements Sounds Of Silence

Author:Paul Simon

“When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

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