I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.
Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
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.
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days.
Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.
As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.
Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.
Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system. " I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.