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• I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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  Tags in Streets, Poet

• I find littering very annoying. It’s a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

  Joanne Harris

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  Tags in Streets, Environment

• The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

  William Hague

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• What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

  Jonathan Sacks

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  Tags in Civil, Streets

• How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

  Burl Ives

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  Tags in Liberty, Walk, Streets

• I’m from the element of the streets that says that once you’ve made it, it’s yours. But keep it to yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

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  Tags in Yourself, Streets

• I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

  Susan Rice

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• I’m just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

  Spike Lee

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  Tags in Streets, Music

• Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

  Theresa May

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  Tags in Police, Local, Streets

• At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

  Sir Edward Burnett Tylor

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• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  Emanuel Celler

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Streets, Club, Congress

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  Aaron Eckhart

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  Tags in Nuts, Witnessed, Streets

• When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

  Paul Simon

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  Tags in Streets, Funkier, Began, Album

• They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That’s like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Tags in Buy, Criminal, Allow, Streets

• The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  Ray Stannard Baker

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