Wall Quotes - Page 15

• Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

  Maria Cantwell

  Roulette, Want, Wheels

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

  Maria Cantwell

  Government, Acting, Expansion

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

  Don Dokken

  Gold, Ceilings, Looks

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• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  Caio Fonseca

  Needs, Painting, Categories

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

  Johnny Cash

  Fall, Order, Law

  Song: San Quentin

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• I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fall, Reality, Law

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• They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

  Randy Travis

  Politics, Praying, Crime

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• In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

  John Ensign

  Business, Vegas, Odds

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• The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

  Bob Dylan

  Pride, Sides, Adages

  Song: Cold Irons Bound, 1997

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• The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

  Elvis Presley

  Advice, Littles, Sound

  Song: The Walls Have Ears, Album: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

  Lukas Foss

  Block, Artist, Creative

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• I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

  Josh Hopkins

  Character, Kentucky, Fans

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• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  Tab Hunter

  Water, Off The Wall

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• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  Fran Kranz

  Kids, Blood, Clothes

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• Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

  Charles Durning

  Night, Acting, Gone

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

  Ruud Gullit

  Stars, May, Journalist

  "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.

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• He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Feelings, Castles

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  J.K. Simmons

  Grateful, Listening, My Sister

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

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• When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

  Mark E. Smith

  School, Leaving, Age

  "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Gun, Doors, My Boyfriend

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

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• An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Men, Songbirds, Exotic Places

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• May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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• With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Relationship, Bridges, People

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Military, Years, Grandfather

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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