“When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.” WantStreetsGayBallsClubsGangMotorcycleWork PlaceMotorcycle Gangs Author:Bernie Mac
“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.” KnowsWayWantFoundGoneRichWonderfulImpossibleStreetsExpressionMaterialsPlanningEtcCompositionAccustomed Author:Tina Modotti
“I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsBigsWaitingStreetsComfortableCamerasLazyFreakBig ThingsSnapshots Author:Nikki S. Lee
“I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.” IfsThinkingWantMindWalksStreetsExampleWalkingPhotographHorribleIntrusionGarbo Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.” WantTryingIdeasStreetsSubjectsProduceApproachPhotographerTraditionalEditorsIntuitivePreconceptionsWanderersPhotojournalists Author:Alex Webb
“Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.” WantYearsPersonsHas BeensAsksVoiceStreetsProjectsAsk MeTalk To Me Author:Andy Serkis
“I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.” WantStreetsElementsDefenseless Author:Tupac Shakur
“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.” WorldWantHumansCareJobsSocialWalksWatchesDemocracyRightsStreetsSecurityTelevisionBuildingCitizensPaperHuman RightsHealth CareBritainInvitesPapersSocial SecurityPensionGreat BritainVenezuelaTrue Democracy Author:Hugo Chavez
“Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?” PeopleIfsWantHomeSocialIssuesStreetsSecurityDown AndSeniorSocial SecurityNursingEntitlementMedicareNursing Home Author:Sheila Jackson Lee
“I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.” IfsWantWritingMeanTurnsWonderStreetsWillingWallTradePrivilegeOilGenerousMore MoneyMuseExposingBeing Generous Author:Seth Godin
“This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.” PeopleKnowsMenWantLongWalksStreetsYeahGreat ThingsIrelandGolfersNorthern Ireland Author:Rory McIlroy
“When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.” WantSongStreetsCarListeningMomWalkingRadioHeyNever ChangeJust Listen Author:Afrojack
“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'” IfsKnowsWantFourHeardStreetsWallNewsCampaignsFarmersBetter OffSlogans Author:Bill Maher
“If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.” IfsWorldWantWritingRealLife IsNightStreetsBedDetailsReal LifeClockShirtsPushingEvery NightDishesExhaustedT ShirtDroppingAlarmsFoldingAlarm ClocksStrollers Author:Anna Quindlen
“I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantNeedsGivingCountrySidesStreets Author:Debby Ryan
“There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.” PeopleIfsWantSchoolNamesStreetsSlaverySouthReconciliation Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantPersonsImportantLawExistenceCrazyStreetsCarCrossesDecidedAskingAssumingIntimacyDependentTraffic Author:Claudia Rankine
“If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsAudienceStreetsWalkingSubway Author:Eric Drooker
“In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMadeDifferentProblemHappensRunningTogetherJoyBreakStreetsWhat You WantAbsenceChainsRunning AwayBumpsChained Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind of a free hand. The kind of work that I wanted to do, most of the other reporters didn't want to do. I was not doing lunch. I was not sucking up to officials. I was writing from the street.” WantWritingKindHandsWantedStreetsNew YorkInstitutionsAccessOfficialsLunchReportersNew York Times Author:Chris Hedges
“On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.” IfsWantNeedsBodyWinningSportsSidesStreetsBalanceHealthyCoreDietsHealthy Body Author:Andy Lally
“That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all the characteristics of the classic patriarchal country, where he's of military power, he's the king of the hill at home, as well as in the streets. He has the liberty to live where he wants.” MenWantWellsCountryHomeBigsInspirationLibertyStreetsMilitaryKingsHillsClassicCharacteristicsTraitsMilitary Power Author:Oren Moverman
“What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.” PeopleKnowsWantEndsEnjoyInterestEconomyStreetsWallManagersFundCrashCeoCompensationWrecksMortgageLoopholesHedge FundShenanigans Author:Hillary Clinton
“Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.” WantLooksCompanyStreetsWallIndustryTaxesSavedAgreementExcessReignJohnsonVigorousPaying TaxesAuto Industry Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.” IfsWantShouldHandsAmericaPresidentLinesJusticeStreetsGunBottomCriminalsBarackDepartmentImmigrantsIllegalBottom LinePresident Barack ObamaIllegal ImmigrantsFelons Author:Katie Pavlich
“Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like "Sesame Street" and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor.” WantChildrenCharacterShowsWantedDealsStreetsTvsAreasTheatreLegacyHonoredVocabularySmall PartsSatiricalSesame Street Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo