Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal…
— Matt Taibbi
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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations…
— Matt Taibbi
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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass…
— Matt Taibbi
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
— Twyla Tharp
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Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.
— Helen Thomas
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People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way,…
— Helen Thomas
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I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
— Anthony Trollope
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent…
— John Updike
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart,…
— Bernard DeVoto
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I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you.…
— Tim Vine
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
— Lech Walesa
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same…
— Elizabeth Warren
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the…
— Roger Waters
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And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.
— Emma Watson
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Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined…
— Lil Wayne
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I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
— Simone Weil
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I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the…
— Harvey Weinstein
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a…
— Florence Welch
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation…
— Jack Welch
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate…
— Cornel West
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