Street Life Quotes

• Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

  Gavin Newsom

  Economic, Neighborhood, Wells

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• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

  Willa Cather

  Breathing, Cities, This Generation

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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• I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Mixing, Life Is, Divine

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• Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hurt, Brother, Fighting

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• Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

  Martin Sheen

  Money, Needs, Tomorrow

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• What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Funny Money, Greed Is Good

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• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cities

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Thinking, Different

  Source: genius.com

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• It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Kids, Bucks

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 25, 2013

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• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Greatness, Heaven

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

  Alex Webb

  Light, Creative, Culture

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• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Drinking, Home

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Independent, Bridges

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

  Ali MacGraw

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Who I Am, Pages, Concern

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Writing, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  New York, Nice, Dirty

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

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