Street Quotes

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.