Wall Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Country, Spring, Thinking

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Writing, Light

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• The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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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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• Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

  Bill Gross

  Long, Bankers, Management

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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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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Bricks, Moments

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• Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

  Richard Dooling

  Moving, Splits, Velocity

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• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

  Summer, Winter, Air

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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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• I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

  Diane Keaton

  Knows, Traits, Hard

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

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• And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

  Bob Seger

  Honesty, Looks, Helping

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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 remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Issues, Parent, Hot

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

  Rick Santorum

  Support, Detroit, Republican

  "Santorum: Romney favored Wall Street bailout, but not Detroit bailout" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Book, Ideas

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• It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

  Juno Temple

  Long, Hug, Directors

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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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• What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Rivers, People, Hollywood

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Expression

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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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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Running, Flip, Impressive

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