“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantReasonPoliticalPoliticsWealthRaceResponsibilityCompassionObjectsColorTaxesDiversityDignityDoctorsSkinsRaisesSuicideErasSubstitutesDiscourseObligedCoercionEntitlementTransfersCompulsorySkin ColorQuotaOrwellianPolitical DiscourseDeath With Dignity Author:Theodore J. Forstmann
“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.” PeopleIfsWantShouldIdeasUseFallEnergySimplePiecesColorPaintingFalling In LoveFinalsCommittedObviousDrawingMediumsCompositionIndicationCollages Author:Dave McKean
“There's no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that's going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don't have to do that, so I don't miss it at all, really.” WantCertainOpinionBreakMissingColorDirectorsCheesePuffMake Or Break Author:Jamie Hyneman
“I know my face is turning red. I don't want you to interpret it as being embarrassed. It's rage. The color of my face is rage.” KnowsWantFacesColorRedRageEmbarrassed Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'” WantMeanDifferentFeelingsGirlColorTypeHeyPurpleCrayonDifferent ColorsArticulationColors Of LifePeriwinkleMagentaVibrant Colors Author:John Mayer
“I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.” IfsThinkingMenWayWantKindPersonsI CanPlayFacesCan DoWhiteAnimalAttitudeRolesColorLimitsGreenPaintPurple Author:Grace Jones
“I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.” PeopleWantShouldKindTwoCareThreeBlackWiseColorSellingOutletsContradictoryAdaptable Author:Manolo Blahnik
“Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.” WantLongPlayWantedArtistSoundImaginationPleasureSeeingFieldsColorDisciplineLong TimePressesAvailableDeeperStrongestInvitesStrangenessPaletteHelium Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMatterHelpingRaceCompassionColorNo Matter WhatShining Author:Janelle Monae
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.” PeopleWantWritingDifferentColorSizeStorytellerOrientationDifferent Colors Author:Jackie Collins
“Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.” PeopleWantShouldImportantEnoughGirlStarsCrazyColorRight NowOffersMessagesAll ThingsMerePopsSexualityObsessionRelyStrongestAssetsConfusingMisleadCaricaturesPop StarsBooty Author:Santigold
“I always carry around a giant makeup case with about fifteen items in it. I so want to be the girl who just carries lipstick as if that's all I need, but I'm just not that girl. I need my lipstick, but then, just in case my cheeks start to lose their color, I need my blush. Then I'll need my oil pads...so I just take the whole thing. And now I need a full on fashionable backpack for it all!” IfsWantNeedsWholeGirlLosesCasesColorOilGiantsMakeupCarrieCheeksFifteenItemsFashionableLipstickThat GirlPads Author:Analeigh Tipton
“Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” IfsWantHeartImportantDreamLinesLaughingGrowingColorImportant ThingsFollowingLive LifeQuestioningMasterpieceFollow Your HeartLive Life To The FullestKeep Dreaming Author:Albert Einstein
“You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.” WantLittlesBigsFilmBitsTermQualityColorLittle BitCamerasSuperiorsDigitalContrastFormatNuanceHighlightsSharpness Author:Michel Gondry
“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?” IfsWantChildrenWould BeSchoolEnjoyDarkChangedColorSkinsVoteAvailableOfficialsRestaurantsLunchDelayPublic SchoolPublic OfficialsFree Life Author:John F. Kennedy
“I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldDifferentSubjectsColorPaintingSizeDifferent Peoples Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.” WantFeelsBornPerfectColorWasteDaughterLipsMy Daughter Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.” PeopleWantFirstsKindHelpingGuySexTalkingAcceptingGroupsColorMusic Is Author:ASAP Rocky
“For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.” WantKindLightSpaceOne ThingColorPaintingAll KindsGentleTragicGesturesPossessedBrutalSoarJoyousPossessingSinkingAxesStreaming Author:Elaine de Kooning
“If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsRunningColorBrushesNeeds And Wants Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.” IfsWantWritingPersonsRealCharacterUseColorShapesVersionsReal Person Author:Jared Harris
“You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.” PeopleWantDoeStillsMatterFilmColorType Author:Regina King
“The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.” IfsWayWantLittlesDifferentFactsTogetherBeautifulWaterColorAskingBlueIceDifferent WaysLakesGoogleCoveringPyramidsDifferent ColorsBeautiful Picture Author:Ira Flatow
“I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.” ThinkingWorldWantMeanArtLightColorArt IsPsychologicalArt WorldPuzzledSpatial Author:Roselee Goldberg
“You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.” WantDifferentLightAnswersMillionsForeverStudyColorLifetimeDiamondQuestioningJewelsQuestions And AnswersDifferent ColorsQuestions Asked Author:Richard Bach
“I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.” ThinkingKnowsWantSuccessfulColorMastersSkillsBeing Successful Author:Maxine Powell
“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."” PeopleWantTryingFormWhiteAttentionResponsibilityColorLike YouConsciousLaysPrivilegePatternsChecksAccounting Author:Bocafloja
“I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.” IfsWantBlackWalksColorTownsUncomfortableDays OffDenim Author:Johnny Cash
“I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.” WantEnemyColorShapesSize Author:Kevin Hart
“The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why Einstein wore the same thing every day; you don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every morning.” WantImportantUseThreeMorningColorImportant ThingsSettingSettingsWheelsEvery Morning Author:Annie E. Clark
“I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsShowsBlackColorGoldBrownYellow Author:Charli XCX
“I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.” IfsWantGivingFeelsShouldLittlesUsePastColorShould HaveSkinsFruitGuidesSeparationChiefsPrimeAvocados Author:Dorie Greenspan
“In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.” WantSeemsAmericaCan DoColorLike YouWestFantasticCoastDo Whatever You WantWest Coast Author:Stanley Donwood
“People do not want to be disillusioned by the new president [Barak Obama]. The liberals felt, finally, this is our time. Now they're worried. Now what they see is more business as usual. We all want to give him the benefit of the doubt, we know it's a tough job and he inherited a mess, but at the end of the day, is it really change we can believe in when there's no public options and Wall Street reform has no teeth in it? It really looks a lot like we just changed the color.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingBelieveLooksEndsJobsFeltPresidentDoubtStreetsChangedColorWallBenefitsToughTeethMessReformWorriedOur TimeThe End Of The DayUsualDisillusionedBenefit Of The DoubtBarak Obama Author:Bill Maher
“The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.” PeopleWantChildrenDifferentMightWhiteColorEssenceCommittedWhite SupremacyStaticMaintenanceSupremacyDifferent Colors Author:William S. Burroughs
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros
“It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you're seeing and carry it into one language.” PeopleWantLooksHardTogetherLanguageImpossibleSeeingColorAmountClothesWowPalette Author:Kanye West
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?” IfsWantEnoughWholeStoriesBlackLinesColorDetermine Author:Ed Gordon
“Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.” PeopleWantGivingRealJobsBreakTechnologyYouthColorGreenRateCongressAvailablePassingPassingsAttractiveIntroducingUrbanLegislationUnemploymentMarketplaceNew TechnologyUnemployment Rate Author:Van Jones
“The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic.” IfsWantMayDoeStillsImportantRealityOrderInformationColorInvisiblePerceiveAestheticSpectrumContinuation Author:Jerry Garcia
“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.” PeopleKnowsWayWantBelieveStatesReasonTodayAmericaLyingPoorUnitedUnited StatesGroupsGreatnessColorPaperDiversityYeahFactorsPapersTransgenderDid You KnowMadisonFederalistFederalist Papers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.” PeopleWantFirstsPersonsHardFeelingsNextBlackWhiteViewsSawsColorHairBehaviorSkinsFolksFilmmakerOffensiveShockedCostumesEnlighteningDutchDressed UpSkin Color Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.” WantNeedsImportantBigsActorsVoiceHeardColorDirectorsFemaleBig Things Author:David Oyelowo
“I definitely feel like it took me a while to learn the baseline things you have to do if you want people to hear you. That's why I've had the same haircut for the entire time that I've been on television and that's why I wear literally the same jacket every day. I keep all the clothes I wear on TV in my office on a little hanging rack. My girlfriend calls it all the colors of the German rainbow. Grays, blacks, a slightly greenish gray for the days that I'm feeling particularly festive. I'm not trying to accomplish anything in the way I look other than to be boring enough for people to hear me.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingLooksLittlesEnoughFeelingsTelevisionColorTvsOfficeClothesBoringAccomplishGirlfriendGrayRainbowJacketsMy GirlfriendHaircutsRacksFestive Author:Rachel Maddow
“If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.” IfsWantMayPersonsProblemDesireAbilityPoorColorResourcesLgbtApartmentMaking LoveHomelessUnlikelyTransgenderHivHiv Positive Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.” WantOpportunityReligiousRaceColorDrinkLimitsAbsolutesStriveConvictionCreedsExhilaratingDregs Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingTryingArtOpportunityProcessSubjectsColorReaderProjectsCreatingRootsGive MeSlaveryClientsArtworkPlantationsCreating ArtIllustrating Author:Jerry Pinkney
“The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.” WantLooksRealBornEffortColorHairMiceSurfingGinger Author:John Lydon