Malls Quotes - Page 8

• The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

  Amy Lee

  Teens

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• The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Emotional, Interesting

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Years, Jam

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Prayer, Real

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• Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

  Thomas Frank

  Years, Law, Land

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• I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

  Eliza Dushku

  Safety Pins, Jeans, Clerks

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Community, Downtown

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• I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, Mtv, Shopping

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Spiritual, California

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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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• Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

  George Saunders

  Hey, Nostalgia, Remember

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• I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.

  Kristen Stewart

  Bother, I Can

  "Kristen Stewart: Coming on Strong" by Eve MacSweeney, www.vogue.com. January 18, 2011.

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• There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.

  Kristen Stewart

  Girl, Gone, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn’t even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad’s spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dad, Army, Jeans

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• And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

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• [Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Drinking, Grandma

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• You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

  Jane Jacobs

  Lying, Real, Artist

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.101, Vintage

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• I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Distance, Mirrors, Bmw

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.164, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

  J. G. Ballard

  Religious, Cities, Shopping

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• I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

  Sarah Dessen

  Sexy, Hair, Style

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.128, Penguin

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• After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Kissing, Hair, People

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• The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Ugly, Unfree

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• Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, "Blaaaaah! I'm a kraken from the sea!" Su-Chin: That was you.

  Diablo Cody

  Girl, Wise, Crazy

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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