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I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. -- Richard Simmons
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. -- Bob Goodlatte
It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. -- Jared Leto
Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls. -- Carly Simon
Strip malls are history. -- Jeff Bezos
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. -- Bill Bryson
There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. -- Dave Foley
Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. -- Tom Scholz
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore. -- Fran Drescher
Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall. -- Hilary Duff
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. -- John Lydon
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. -- Bill Bryson
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. -- Aaliyah
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to. -- Chris Rock
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes. -- Rolf Dobelli
The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. -- Dave Foley
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. -- Bill Bryson
That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am. -- Jessica Zafra
I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio. -- Suzi Quatro
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. -- Marianne Williamson
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips. -- Jane Byrne
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about. -- Jello Biafra
L.A. malls are so different than a 'mall' mall like we probably all grew up with that had a food court and the sword shop, the yo-yo kiosk. -- Eric Wareheim
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. -- Dave Barry
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls. -- Bill Bryson
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job. -- Roger Ailes
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. -- Beck
Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. -- Moby
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. -- Aravind Adiga
I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to. -- Charlie Trotter
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. -- Henry Giroux
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way. -- Bjarke Ingels
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman. -- Aaron Carter
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful. -- Sam Trammell
Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again -- Conor Oberst
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. -- Bill Bryson
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer. -- Diane Ackerman
Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture. -- Jhonen Vasquez
I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat. -- Gillian Jacobs
We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves. -- Alex Steffen
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope. -- Harmony Korine
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras. -- Cassandra Peterson
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes. -- Taylor Swift
There is no weather in malls. -- Charles Baxter
Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. -- Cynthia Heimel
My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? -- Gemma Halliday
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes. -- Garrison Keillor
I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines. I heard that there are so many big malls there and so many beaches. -- Lee Min-ho
You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy. -- Greg Lake
I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy. -- Avril Lavigne
I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls. -- Rob Lowe
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed. -- S. Truett Cathy
I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes -- Tevin Campbell
If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
My shopping habits... I am not very brand-conscious about clothes. I buy whatever looks good on me. Likewise, I don't just shop only in malls or high-end stores. -- Virat Kohli
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. -- Jean Baudrillard
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism. -- Arthur Kroker
My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap. -- Karen Duffy
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity. -- Stacey Levine
The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop. -- Bob Herbert
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility. -- Majora Carter

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