Best Street Wisdom
2655 Street quotes by 1931 unique authors
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the…
— Michael Parenti
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right…
— Michael Jackson
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down…
— Rudyard Kipling
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It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and…
— Nate Ruess
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I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
— Michael Connelly
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Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the…
— Peter Selgin
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard…
— Paul McCartney
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Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife…
— Leonard Cohen
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When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street…
— Tom Waits
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A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she…
— Jake Johannsen
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When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.
— Helen Rowland
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Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
— Moms Mabley
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The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
— Princess Diana
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I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, “Smokey! I love you! What’s happening with Jacob?” Here’s a guy…
— Titus Welliver
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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death,…
— Jeremy Scahill
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We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air
— Unknown Author
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I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a…
— Riccardo Tisci
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True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it…
— Fielding H. Yost
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Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know…
— DMX
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I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.
— Emily Ratajkowski
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Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out…
— Tom Hanks
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