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«I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.»
«[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.»
Author: Joyce Wadler
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
avenue, avenues, delicacies, delicacy, express train, Lexington, operated
«Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles / and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech / look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.»
«You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.»
«Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
assimilation, avenue, avenues, Avenue of, The Avenue
«I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.»
«Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
aggression, avenue, avenues, Madison, manipulation, manipulations
«You fantasize about a man with a Park Avenue apartment and a nice big stock portfolio...For me, it's a fireman with a nice big hose. [Samantha]»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
| Keywords:
apartment, avenue, avenues, Avenue of, fantasize, fantasized, fantasizing, fireman, firemen, hose, park, Park Avenue, portfolio, Samantha, stock, The Apartment, The Apartments, The Avenue
«This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
avenue, avenues, Avenue of, Bridges, grandchildren, Madison, sappy, The Avenue, write about
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