Top 100 Quotes About Subway

#1. Which is to say: a city boy, definitively. He knew exactly which spot on which subway platform corresponded with which staircase on which other platform.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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#2. One of the beauties of B2B is that there is a finite number of customers. So the marketing costs are much different. You don't have to take out Super Bowl ads or plaster the New York subway system.

William Fung

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#3. My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

Bryce Dallas Howard

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#4. It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.

A.R. Rahman

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#5. If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

Rick Riordan

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#6. I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Sarah Jones

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#7. The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.

Jaume Collet-Serra

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#8. I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.

Anthony Jeselnik

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#9. Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

Christy Hall

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#10. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

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#11. No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

Richard Linklater

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#12. A lot of stuff happens daily when you're running a company like Subway. If you get too happy about some things or too unhappy about others, you get worn out. It's best if you can pace yourself a little bit more.

Fred DeLuca

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#13. subway escalators;

Nicholson Baker

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#14. Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

Hart Crane

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#15. I wouldn't go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.

Joe Biden

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#16. Demon slayers take the subway?

Cassandra Clare

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#17. I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

Paulo Costanzo

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#18. Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

Calvin Trillin

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#19. This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.

Don DeLillo

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#20. I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

Elizabeth Strout

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#21. New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Bill Geist

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#22. Do you think the guy on the subway that is touching himself feels like he's spreading love? I will tell you right now there is a law against that.

Sara Quinn

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#23. I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Fran Lebowitz

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#24. ...subway brakes spit ozone...

William S. Burroughs

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#25. My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

Lewis Thomas

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#26. I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Joe Scarborough

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#27. Have you ever noticed," he said, stirred now by this vision of domestic bliss that was beyond his reach, and shocked earlier that evening to find himself crying in the subway on his way home from a client, "that gay people secrete everything in each other's presence but tears?

Andrew Holleran

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#28. I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

Ansel Elgort

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#29. I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Keri Russell

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#30. If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

Siri Hustvedt

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#31. In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

John Mica

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#32. I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back.

Brandon Stanton

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#33. I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

Kate McKinnon

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#34. The locker room is like taking the subway after midnight: Chances are you are going to be fine, but you never know who is going to pull their dick out.

Dom Mazzetti

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#35. I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

Dick Van Patten

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#36. People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

Jimmy Breslin

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#37. I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.

David Alan Basche

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#38. In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.

Simon Garfield

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#39. Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

Bob Dylan

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#40. When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair got harassed. People would touch their hair and grope them in the subway. Actually, a lot of groping happens in the subway in Japan, but that's probably true of subways everywhere.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

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#41. Cracks Down On Subway Acrobats

Anonymous

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#42. In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.

Bobby Flay

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#43. We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

Jimmy Wales

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#44. A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

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#45. The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.

Bob Rae

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#46. I wish I were the graceful sort. I was trained to be. "Never chase men or buses," my mother told me. "Another one will always come along." Still, I always run after the subway, and when men go, I follow.

Katie Crouch

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#47. Would I trade that in, give it away for the hunt? I stumble down the stairs of a subway. No. I couldn't trade it in again. Not now that I know what it is to be loved. Not now that I've stepped out of the cave and into the sun.

Jackson Pearce

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#48. I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

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#49. An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.

Richard Preston

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#50. Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.

Dakota Lane

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#51. I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

Tim Daly

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#52. When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.

Alan Furst

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#53. Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Ray Bradbury

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#54. This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

Adam Gollner

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#55. Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

Eric Holder

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#56. People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

John Waters

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#57. Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

Ana Ortiz

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#58. The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis.

Al Dubin

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#59. While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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#60. We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.

Fred DeLuca

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#61. I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

Meg Cabot

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#62. I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Alexander Wang

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#63. For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.

Victoria Mahoney

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#64. Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.

Paul Dano

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#65. When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.

Michael Koryta

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#66. I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

Douglas Kennedy

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#67. Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.

David Letterman

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#68. There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

Michael Ritchie

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#69. I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.

Apolo Ohno

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#70. I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.

Amy Childs

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#71. Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

Fred DeLuca

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#72. My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.

Rob Payne

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#73. There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

Brian F. O'Byrne

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#74. The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and thought: I am the loneliest person in this subway car.

Meg Wolitzer

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#75. This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

Denis Leary

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#76. There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Lennon Parham

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#77. Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

Immortal Technique

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#78. I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Flannery O'Connor

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#79. When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

Aaron Yoo

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#80. One never need leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes - I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.

Frank O'Hara

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#81. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

Tablo

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#82. They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Nate Berkus

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#83. There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

Fred DeLuca

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#84. The heart, that secret repository where needs and fears elbowed each other continuously like uncomfortable passengers in a crowded subway car...

Stephen King

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#85. I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

Anna Camp

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#86. I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

Billy Collins

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#87. Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

Daniel Boulud

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#88. I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.

Michael Mann

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#89. I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Kate Christensen

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#90. From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Bill Frist

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#91. I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.

Don Alias

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#92. We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

Douglas Rushkoff

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#93. It's like the smell of bread baking at Subway. You know it's not the way nature or God intended it to smell, but something about it's addictive.

Lauren Oliver

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#94. Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!

Santino Marella

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#95. Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Dhani Jones

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#96. If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#97. 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

Bobby Flay

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#98. People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

Gary Shteyngart

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#99. I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Alex Karpovsky

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#100. Within a week, I knew the subway systems,

Kristan Higgins

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