Malls Quotes - Page 7

• Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Thinking, Squares

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• Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

  Janette Rallison

  Long, Tails, Fishes

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• Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Airports, Shopping, Car

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Clothes, Car

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• The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Flirting, Shopping, Synthesis

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Meals, Want, Saying Thank You

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But ... if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Beautiful, Believe, Defeated You

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• For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure I want to be cruising around a mall parking lot filled with a thousand mini-Hindenburgs.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

  "When Did Nature Get So Whiney?". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Cities, Shopping, Car

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines. I heard that there are so many big malls there and so many beaches.

  Lee Min-ho

  Beach, Philippines, Looking Forward

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• Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, May, Bombay

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• A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Teenage, Florida

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• I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

  Denis Hayes

  Thinking, Desire, Debtors

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Son, May

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• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  Dat Phan

  Jobs, Shopping, Two

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• Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

  Ted Lieu

  Dream, Country, Brother

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• As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

  Susana Martinez

  Girl, Running, Giving

  "The best of the Republican national convention: what will you remember?" by Ruth Spencer, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

  Camille Paglia

  Fall, Laughing, Giving

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• The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

  Edward Abbey

  Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.

  Matthea Harvey

  Memories, Writing, Sunset

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.

  Jody Hill

  Thinking, Want, Film

  Interview with The A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Shopping, Ideas

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• The weirdest moments for me are in Los Angeles when I go to a mall that I've shopped at since I was 12, and now there's like, massive pictures of our faces everywhere, at my local coffee shops now there's these billboards of people wearing the T-shirts and stuff. It's very strange, but it's really exciting.

  Lily Collins

  Coffee, People, Stuff

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

  Henry Hyde

  Political, Looks, Politics

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