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Bears don't live on Park Avenue. -- Bernard Baruch
Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark. -- Nat King Cole
Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses. -- Peter Beard
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. -- Anthony Trollope
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. -- Marshall McLuhan
I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks. -- James Rosenquist
A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work. -- James Galanos
My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California. -- Jussie Smollett
Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland. -- Marc Cohn
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. -- Mitch Leigh
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I could stand in the middle Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. -- Donald Trump
First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect. -- Lizzo
After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed? -- Rich Sommer
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll..." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. -- Gay Talese
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched. -- Gary Jennings
If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago. -- Fareed Zakaria
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block -- Big Daddy Kane
I canâ??t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. -- Ethel Barrymore
I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away. -- Henny Youngman
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. -- Bob Balaban
I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue) -- Groucho Marx
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. -- Sharon Gless
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. -- Steve Carlton
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle -- KRS-One
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. -- Carl Jung
If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times. -- Kristin Davis
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space. -- Bobby Flay
Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue. -- Meg Cabot
It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls. -- Robert Orben
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. -- Anna Godbersen
When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you. -- Frank Shorter
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. -- Marshall McLuhan
In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! -- Jenson Button
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers. -- Michael Palmer
[Hillary Clinton] spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising - you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room. -- Donald Trump
Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin -- GZA
The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears. -- Dylan Lauren
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. -- Mark Kurlansky
I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue -- Big Noyd
I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. -- Stone Gossard
There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way. -- Marianne Williamson
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York. -- Jason Alexander
Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address. -- Anthony Hitt
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. -- Dick Gregory
I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does. -- Jack Pierson
Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt. -- Lionel Shriver
Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled. -- David Ogilvy
I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys. -- Moby
If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.' -- Ronald Kessler
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed. -- Andy Grove
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy. -- James Longstreet
It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you. -- Terence McKenna
I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I'd seen in a long time. -- Rob McClure
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. -- Ilana Mercer
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium. -- Reggie Jackson
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. -- Anthony Holden
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. -- Norman Rockwell
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. -- Norman Lear
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely. -- Robert Klein
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. -- Rufus Wainwright
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. -- Joseph Campbell
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue. -- Erich Fromm
FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue. -- S. J. Perelman
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner. -- Helmut Jahn
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? -- William S. Burroughs
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was. -- Hillary Clinton
I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that. -- Noah Baumbach
I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of. -- Rick James
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. -- Tom Robbins
I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. -- Caroline Rhea
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence? -- Jerome Cavanagh
I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs! -- Rob McClure
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. -- Jason Alexander
Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup. -- Maxwell Bodenheim
A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that. -- Shawn Lukas
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. -- Rick Riordan
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade. -- Wallace Thurman
We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records. -- Casey Kasem
Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer. -- Helen Caldicott
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps. -- George W. S. Trow
For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that. -- Shawn Lukas
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market. -- Debi Mazar
I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits. -- Duane Elgin
We`re going to be opening up the old post office where we spent over $200 million, and built the most magnificent hotel, I think, anywhere in the country on Pennsylvania Avenue right between the White House and congress. -- Donald Trump
Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?" "I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked with antlers on your head", said Clary, blinking silver drops off her lashes. -- Cassandra Clare
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy! -- Harold Feinstein
The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce. -- Yip Harburg
She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her. -- J. D. Salinger
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available. -- Ira Levin
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue. -- Terence McKenna
The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel. -- Ralph Nader
If you walk five blocks north from the wholefoods in Berkeley along Telegraph Avenue and then turn right at Dwight way, you'll soon come to a trash-strewn patch of grass and trees dotted with the tattered camps of a few homeless people." -- Michael Pollan
The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well. -- Paul Smith
Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you. -- Robert Reich
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide. -- Charlie Cook
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas. -- Dan Jenkins
I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player. -- Brad Paisley
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know. -- James Lipton
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River? -- Alex Gibney
I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure. -- Betty Dodson
We are convinced that Organic Avenue is extraordinarily well positioned to become a national leader in both the rapidly growing $5 billion organic juicing industry and the $75 billion natural foods industry, driven by an increasing number of consumers moving towards a healthier diet of organic foods. -- Jonathan Grayer
I'm a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country. -- Gavin Creel
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship. -- Vivian Gornick
That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King. -- Paul Samuelson
Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me. -- Steven Tyler
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding. -- Jules Romains
In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent. -- Megan Smolenyak
I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth. -- Kate Moss
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget. -- Tom Wolfe
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor. -- Rudy Giuliani
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. -- Henry Louis Gates
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington. -- David Maraniss
But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country. -- Mark Leibovich

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