Streets Quotes - Page 11

• The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all over this planet. It’s as if Christ said, “Think you’re missing the book smarts, the street smarts, the looks, the talent, or the speaking ability to accomplish this mission? Don’t be concerned with those things, because you have my mountain-moving, life-transforming, death-defying power on your side.”

  Bill Hybels

  Smart, Moving, Book

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• Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Looks, Paper, Faces

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• Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bed, Half, Way

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• There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

  Lawrence Summers

  Jobs, Children, Would Be

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• But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

  Paul Krugman

  Wall, Smart, Men

  "Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

  Theda Bara

  New York, Children, Police

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

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• I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

  GG Allin

  Shopping, Records, Carts

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

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

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• When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Thinking, Cities, Gold

  "The Importance Of Gold Now And After The Complete Victory Of Socialism". Pravda No. 251, November 6-7, 1921. Collected Works, Volume 33, pages 109-116, www.marxists.org.

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• The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

  Jesse Helms

  Men, Rights, Forever

  Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation

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• The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Imf, Today

  Ernesto Che Guevara (2013). “The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America”, p.212, Ocean Press

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• Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

  Susan Blackmore

  Thinking, Tree, Perception

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

  Abbie Hoffman

  People, Trials, Festivals

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• I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

  Graham Coxon

  Hair, Twists, Faces

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• You can go a hundred miles a second Don't have to drive no lousy cab Got everything you want and more man And the King picks up the tab You walk around on streets of gold all day And you never have to listen To what these customers say and I know.

  Marc Cohn

  Kings, Men, Gold

  Song: Saving The Best For The Last, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

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• In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

  Don McLean

  Children, Lovers, Poet

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

  Charles Ives

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.41, 1st World Publishing

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• I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Children, Growing Up, Hands

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.186, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)

  Pearl Cleage

  Home, School, America

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

  Dorothy Fields

  Feet, Sides, Sunny

  "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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• Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

  Sumner Redstone

  Wall, Competition, Too Much

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• If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy.

  Tim Burton

  Crazy, Blessed, Thinking

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• One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Ghetto, Artist, Urban

  "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

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