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• People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Names, People, Development

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• We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Sight, Delight, Littles

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• As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

  Lynda Barry

  Dark, Velvet, Looks

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• There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

  John J. Mack

  Ethical, Firm, Streets

  "Online Extra: Q&A with CSFB's John Mack". Interview with Emily Thornton, www.bloomberg.com. September 23, 2002.

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• Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Doors, America, Wire

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• Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience

  Gunter Brus

  Self, Support, Records

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• Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

  Jeff Bezos

  Regret, Missing, Leaving

  "The Inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Character, Blue, Mrs Bennet

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• People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.

  Liam Neeson

  Sex, School, Drawing

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

  Channing Tatum

  Daughter, Son, Thinking

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• Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

  George Carlin

  Patriotic, People, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Thinking, One Day

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• Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Mean, Reality

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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• I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Art, Thinking, Pieces

  "Ellen DeGeneres is in the house". Interview with Mary Cadden, www.usatoday.com. January 25, 2015.

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• When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Paper, Stones

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

  Ed Sheeran

  Drunk, Used, Shows

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

  Trent Reznor

  Song, Writing, The End Of The Day

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

  Chief Dan George

  Heart, Mountain Ranges, Mind

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• Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

  Jo Nesbo

  Long, Cracks, Dams

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• Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

  Sufjan Stevens

  School, Light, Lockers

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Purple, Glasses, Zion

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.

  Glenn Greenwald

  May, Facts, Financial

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