Streets quotes
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"I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone."
"Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing."
"When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets."
"What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street."
"Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!"
"It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still."
"If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese."
"Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn."
"Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play."
"The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names."
"The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them"
"It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened."
"Wall Street is stronger than ever."
"I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets."
"there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds"
"I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street."
"If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves."
"In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street."
"Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets."
"You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not."
