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“Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'”

Should Stills Country Facts Jobs Easy Steps Streets Wall Return Bills Financial Congress Hills Fraud Preparing Puppets Slam Capitol Main Street Muppet Orwellian Capitol Hill

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.”

Thinking Audience Special Effects Events Wall Disbelief Over The Top Special Effects Cgi

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.”

People Feels Trying Kind Whole Dream Lying Difficult Nice Like You Wall Breakthrough Bleeding

Author:Lewis Black

“I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.”

Ifs Literature Wall Lonely Careful Old Lady

Author:Danielle Steel

“I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.”

Writing Years Found Streets Wall Ten Agree Financial Magazines Corporate Apples Fraud Exposing Bad Apple

Author:Ben Stein

“Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.”

Feels Wells Stills Kids Wall Okay Angry Vicious Downsizing Fired Up

Author:Howard Stern

“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.”

Faces Form Social Situation Support Loneliness Wall Leaving Painful Blank Physicians Antagonism

Author:Elizabeth Blackwell

“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”

Ifs Art Hard Walks Modern Painting Wall Sculpture Modern Art

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.”

Art War Form Economy Cutting Streets Wall Cold Taxes Blame Investment Iraq Spending Barack Afghanistan Deficit Refined Tax Cuts Blaming Others

Author:John Sununu

“On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.”

Turns Economic Streets Wall Tough Blow Thrive Schemes

Author:James Surowiecki

“Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.”

World Way Long Streets Wall Long Way Great Depression Insiders

Author:James Surowiecki

“In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.”

Felt Company Streets Judging Wall Performances Rage Bars Setting Settings Corporate Executives Payroll Downsizing

Author:James Surowiecki

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.”

Nature Car Wall Climate Change Arguing Giants Bricks Our Environment Headings Brick Wall People Stupidity

Author:David Suzuki

“All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.”

Wall My Friends Covered Framed

Author:Taylor Swift

“I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!”

Would Be Song Fun Wall Rap Collaboration Hook Off The Wall Rap Song

Author:Taylor Swift

“An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.”

World Way Giving Streets Wall Taxes Derivatives

Author:Matt Taibbi

“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.”

Thinking Government Cases Streets Wall Involved Financial Corruption Being True Complexity Schemes Jury

Author:Matt Taibbi

“The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.”

Individual Streets Crime Wall Commit Zero Incentives Almost Zero

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.”

Matter Streets Wall Behavior Making Money Justify Cult Romney Forged

Author:Matt Taibbi

“'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.”

World Facts Wealth Company Millions Saws Streets Wall Majors Crisis Dollars Financial Criminals Billions Destroyed Eras Jail Scandal Mantras Obscene Financial Crisis

Author:Matt Taibbi

“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”

People Political Language Streets Wall Creating Ordinary Crisis Majority Complexes Crowds Ordinary People Urgent Participants Fluent

Author:Matt Taibbi

“By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.”

Has Beens Helping Company Player Streets Wall Selling Firm Sellers Enron

Author:Matt Taibbi

“To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.”

Running Energy Company Millions Streets Wall Dollars Oil Firm Corporations Gas Stations Assets Profitable Pipeline Gas Stations Rigs

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.”

Lasts Purpose Bits Class Economy Streets Middle Wall Meat Giants Middle Class Assets Schemes Stripping

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.”

Thinking Knows Streets Wall Increase Bonus

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.”

People Thinking Modern Wall Dance Dancer Ballet Unhealthy Ballet Dancer Modern Dance

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”

Ifs Feels I Can Home Hands Film Written Seeing Wall Perception Glasses Backgrounds Ice Queens Feds Champagne Fed Up Banging Ice Queen

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.”

Knows Found Literature Strong Grows Know How Wall Plant Delicate Towers Ivy Parasites Creepers

Book:Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works

Source: Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works

“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.”

Knows Writing Has Beens Choices Rooms Numbers Doors Particular Wall Narrative Exit

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

Heart Found Sun Food Wall Promise Seasons Weight Cooking Woods Culinary Rats Pulse Dungeons

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.”

Wall Projects Bounds Welfare Sooner Or Later Millionaire Frame Of Reference

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.”

Kind Soul House Bits Wall Teenager Bedroom Your Wall

Author:Tim Vine

“The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.”

Fall Nice Wall Berlin Berlin Wall Nice Picture

Author:Lech Walesa

“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”

Feels Trying Lying Possibility Wall Accomplish

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner

“Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?”

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

World Body Pain Lasts Night Fall Stars Wall Shadow Blind Finals Indifference Scare Barrels Rifles Unfeeling

Author:Roger Waters

“And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.”

People Whole Wall Cards Covered

Author:Emma Watson

“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”

Men Humans Whole School House Education Wall Training Educational Literacy Mold

Book:The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

Source: The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

“Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.”

Spirit Wall Prison Jail Locks Confined Prison Walls

Author:Lil Wayne

“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.”

Thinking World Should Different Whole Girl Interesting Cities Behinds Streets New York Wall Goes On Scene Bother Should I Different Worlds Behind The Scenes Working Girl

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”

Mean Two God Communication Wall Catholic Communicate Separation Cells Links Prisoner Knocking Nonverbal Means Of Communication Modern Communication

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.”

Play Voice Half Dog Wall Skills Hundred Instruments Enthusiasm Tunes Pens Stolen Cupboards Dog Days

Author:Florence Welch

“Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.”

Way Country Jobs Support Policy Products Wall Beats Innovation China Innovative New Products Walls Up

Author:Jack Welch

“Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.”

Needs Country Government President Deals Streets Wall Corporate Permanent

Author:Cornel West

“Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.”

Men World Two Spiritual Walks Wonder Wall Walking Creatures Nightmare Caves Pilgrimage Two Worlds

Book:Three Complete Novels

Source: Three Complete Novels

“When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.”

Thinking Feet Strange Wall Woods Intense Snow Giants Launching

Author:Shaun White

“President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.”

Jobs President Levels Economy Records Streets Wall Equal Percent Raises Clinton Rate President Obama Proposal High Level President Clinton

Author:Juan Williams

“My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.”

Wall Dad Bills Dollars My Dad Flats Frank Autographs Framed Dollar Bills

Author:Robbie Williams

“Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.”

Looks Wall Internet Pompeii

Author:Robin Williams

“Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.”

Knows Sometimes Wall Come Up Bricks Halfway Brick Wall

Author:John Bonham

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