"I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself."
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"If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him."
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"If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean."
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"Weapons of war have no place on our streets."
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"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
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"Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them."
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"They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart."
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"What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment."
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"I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed."
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"I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine."
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"Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity."
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"I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home"
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"Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise."
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"I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world."
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"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature."
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"One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen."
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"I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets."
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"Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home."
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"I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'."
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"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
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