Quotes About Streetwise

I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

The difference between me and other Superstars is that I am more intelligent, possess a superior streetwise viciousness and am motivated by money.

Never Underrate A Street Boy With Wifi

Mom's Rules for Life in New York City 1. Always have your key out before you reach the front door. 2. If a stranger is hanging out in front of the building, don't ever go in - just keep walking around the block until he's gone. 3. Look ahead. If there's someone acting strange down the block, looking drunk or dangerous, cross to the other side of the street, but don't be obvious about it. Make it look like you were planning to cross the street all along. 4. Never show your money on the street.

Joules cackled with delight. And I've still got time to moon her. You think me arse'll show up on her infrared? The streetwise bruiser was back.

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

You simply can't get inside the heads of other people and say to them, 'Look, I went through some rough times.' It's impossible to explain everything the streets taught me, and that was quite a lot.

I'm sorry to say it, but we have to be more arrogant and more streetwise because we are coming up against some great teams who have that streetwise mentality. They bring their play into it: you do what you have to do to win a game. Simple as that. Be streetwise and clever.

It's a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.

I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

I hadn't hustled in the streets for years for nothing. I knew when I was being set up.

I'm the gorgeous gangster.

he had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen.

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.

A natural street freak, just eating whatever came by.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

I never thought I'd be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to know how to carry myself; I had to act like I was older than I was.

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

"The artful Dodger."

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.