Streets Quotes - Page 40

• At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, Night, Years

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• When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Country, Wall, Lying

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

  John Garamendi

  Dream, Jobs, Good Life

  "House Republicans Continue to Block Commonsense Make It In America Policies" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

  John Garamendi

  Home, House, Community

  "Democrats Mulling New Housing Bailout Plan". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, San Francisco

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

  Maurice Gibb

  Saws, Bees, Left Behind

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

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• After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Who I Am, People, Frightened

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• I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Persons

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• Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Reality, Broken

  Song: Everything is Broken, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dog, Baby, Grief

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• Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.

  Snoop Dogg

  Alcohol, Smoking, Drug

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• When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

  George Thorogood

  Kings, Queens, Steps

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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• I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

  Alice Cooper

  Evil, Gold, Hell

  Song: Cleansed By Fire, Album: The Last Temptation

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• Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

  Ani DiFranco

  Goodbye, Air, Sky

  Song: Fire Door

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• There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Tree, Enlightenment

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• I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

  Tim McGraw

  Inspirational, Trying, Sides

  Song: Carry On, 1999

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• It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Stars, Cities

  "Celluloid Heroes" (song) (1972)

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• Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

  William James Mayo

  Dream, Science, Vision

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Queens, Media

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• I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

  Elton John

  If I Could, Ifs, I Can

  Song: Amy Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Honky Chateau, 1972

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• I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Home, Infidelity

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• You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

  R. Kelly

  Light, Poetry, Green

  Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see.

  Toby Keith

  Son, Boys, Men

  "Song: "Beer for My Horses" ("Unleashed")". www.foxnews.com. 2002.

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• The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Waiting, Politics

  Song: I Want You, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

  Puff Daddy

  Fashion, New York, Home

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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