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Mean Streets Quotes (page 2)

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she... Frank McCourt
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality. Alexi Giannoulias
They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand! America Ferrera
Missy Elliot quote: "I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean..."
I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. Missy Elliot
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic. Sarah Jessica Parker
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians. Harry Connick, Jr.
The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community. Virginia Hamilton
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. Ringo Starr
Bud Selig quote: "You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get..."
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. Bud Selig
Marilyn vos Savant quote: "Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene,..."
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning. Marilyn vos Savant
I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor. Michael Bloomberg
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Luc Besson
Della Reese quote: "There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean..."
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either. Della Reese
I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay. Etta James
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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