Malls Quotes

• If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Shopping, People, Fifteen

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Civilization

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Years, Jam

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Garden, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.8, Editora Dracaena

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• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  Fran Drescher

  Shopping

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• The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.

  Henry Fairlie

  Play, Shopping, Luxury

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  Dave Foley

  Childhood

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• Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

  Ben Fountain

  Country, America, Giants

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.161, Canongate Books

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• There is no weather in malls.

  Charles Baxter

  Weather

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.119, Vintage

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• Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Religious, Holiday

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• The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

  Ani DiFranco

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Subdivision, Album: Revelling / Reckoning

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• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  Aaliyah

  Kids, Want, Ifs

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• If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

  Jane Byrne

  Community, Rehabilitation, Succeed

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• The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

  Dave Foley

  California, Los Angeles, Fantastic

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• Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

  Tom Scholz

  Shopping, Woods, Streams

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• God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

  Florence King

  Shopping, People, May

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• That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

  Jessica Zafra

  Culture, Shops

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• Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

  Sam Keen

  People, Bunting, Degrees

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

  Carly Simon

  War, Cities, Long

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• Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Shopping

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Circles, Typical

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• Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

  Hilary Duff

  Sometimes, My Favorite, Restaurants

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• Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Growing Up, Thinking, Past

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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