John F. Street quotes

John F. Street quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing.”
-- John F. Street

Source : "Actual Excerpts from John Street's Class at Temple" by Tom Namako, Philadelphia Citypaper, February 27, 2008.

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.”
“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”
“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”
“I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.”
“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”
“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”

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