Malls Quotes - Page 2

• Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

  Carly Simon

  War, Cities, Long

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Circles, Typical

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• Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

  Hilary Duff

  Sometimes, My Favorite, Restaurants

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Growing Up, Thinking, Past

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• Fans are my favorite thing in the world.

  Taylor Swift

  Fans, World, Favorites Things

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• Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Shopping, Ordinary

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.75, Random House

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• A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Running, Daughter

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• Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

  Bill Bryson

  Benefits, Automobile, Busier

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• Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Shopping

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• Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Law, Shopping

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• I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I've gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like "Oh my God, who's that? Who's that?" And I was like whatever, because you know, there are like 20 people traveling with me. It's like I have an entourage following me -- which is so funny.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Years, Shopping, People

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• I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

  Charlie Trotter

  Party, People, Fraternity

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• Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look at the industry like it's a giant mall, and I have a little store - this what I'm selling: I do stand-up, I've got a podcast, and occasionally I act.

  Bill Burr

  Giants, Inward, Looks

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

  Ani DiFranco

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Subdivision, Album: Revelling / Reckoning

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• Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, School

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

  John Lydon

  Shopping, Culture, Tvs

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• The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

  Marilyn Manson

  Jeans, Shopping, Lunch

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• Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

  Ben Fountain

  Country, America, Giants

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.161, Canongate Books

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• Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.

  Arthur Kroker

  Shopping, Space, Desire

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• A suburban mall turned vertical.

  Paul Goldberger

  Vertical

  "Marriott Marquis Hotel: An Edsel In Time Sq.?". www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1985.

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• Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Corporations, Form, Playgrounds

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• The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying “I bet we can do this.” Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let’s squander some on Mars. Let’s go out and play.

  Mary Roach

  War, Cancer, Believe

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.174, Oneworld Publications

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• The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

  Dave Foley

  California, Los Angeles, Fantastic

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