“Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't know what you're fighting for, how do you know when you've got victory? In some ways, new media makes it easier for people to connect. It's hard, though, because we're much more seduced by the Internet, by big-screen TVs, by cell phones that can do everything.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHardProblemBigsFightingCan DoClearStreetsMediaTvsWallInternetVictoryEasierFolksPhonesScreensCellsDo You KnowCell PhoneBig ScreenNew MediaOccupy Wall Street Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“I have very little interest in endlessly telling people about my artistic process. It sounds like throwing yourself against a wall and crying. It's not interesting to most people. It's interesting to yourself. But it's your problem, not anyone else's.” PeopleLittlesProblemProcessSoundInterestInterestingCryWallArtisticThrowingArtistic Process Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsSometimesCan DoFictionStudentsWallDiscoveryWork OutWorking ItSophisticatedSequence Author:T.C. Boyle
“There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."” PeopleBelieveMomentsFeltWallCapitalismDown AndIdeologyBerlinBerlin Wall Author:Matthew Specktor
“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsMindHelpingFeelingsLastsOrderGoalHealingBehindsFourAchieveBuildingWallBehaviorEmptyAddictionBusyPatternsFocusedDecadesHelping OthersBarsCellsSubstanceAcquireNew ThingsFeel BetterNew GoalBuilding WallsFeeling Empty Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about. I just think passion is such an embraceable thing, whether it's the guy in the coffee shop who's making the coffee or a bricklayer who loves making walls. I love watching people who love what they do, and I think that's very inspirational.” PeopleThinkingMatterGuyPassionWallInspiredPassionateCoffeeShopsLove MakingCoffee ShopBricklayersVery Inspirational Author:Neil Jackson
“We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.” PeopleGivingWellsLongWould BeCareRunningRichStreetsEffectsWallCoupleOrdinaryConsequenceAccessSavedReformHealth CareOur FutureLong RunsBankersJeopardyHealth Care Reform Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.” PeopleMadeDoneFactsCareTodayMillionsWallDrugGood ThingsClintonZeroSecretaryAffordablePrescriptionsPrescription DrugsOff The WallAffordable Care Act Author:Bernie Sanders
“Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsMightInfluenceStreetsWallYeahDollarsBillionsCampaignsContributionLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.” PeopleCountryReasonPoliticalViewsDemocracyStreetsHugeWallAmountCongressCampaignsReason WhyWealthyAllowingPolitical SystemsUnderminingContributorsAmerican Democracy Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingStreetsWallBeatsEvidenceFinancialProtectionPrimariesConsumersConsumer Protection 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
“I think it's a broader target list than just Wall Street, and I believe that we have to be very focused on how we try to take back the power and increase the empowerment of the American people. And, I think I have that kind of experience, maybe because they've beat me up for so many years, and I know exactly how to handle them because I've been in the arena with them time and time again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsBelieveKindI BelieveStreetsWallBeatsEmpowermentIncreaseFocusedListsHandleTargetArena Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that we are fighting for. This is a senator who has taken on every powerful special interest, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's drug companies who are ripping off the American people, the military industrial complex.” PeopleThinkingWayLongFightingInterestPowerfulCompanyTakenProgressStreetsSpecialMilitaryWallDrugComplexesAgendasSenatorsLong WayVery PowerfulSpecial InterestsMilitary Industrial ComplexLong Way To GoDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones." [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.” PeopleIfsWantWritingYearsChildrenHelpingParentForgetWifeMilitaryWallProtectEightNineCrushedNine YearsGraffitiAssad Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingBelieveMeanPlayFightingRealizingOpinionRecordsWillingWallConvinceThroatTrenches Author:Bernie Finkelstein
“The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesBuildingWallDignityGuiltyInsultAffront Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.” PeopleThinkingStreetsWallBehaviorAngryClintonGreedIllegalSecretary Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like I have come up with some conceptual songs that will really connect with people and that is something that I have been showing and improving my lyrical ability so much that I came to this realization that I also want to make music that people can connect with.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsHas BeensSongAbilityBreakWallDown AndCome UpRealizationKeep GoingImprovingLyrical Author:Shane Bunting
“I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesRoomsAttentionWallMusicianGive MeLeavingPerformersEditing Author:Travis Morrison
“I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveEconomyStreetsWallOughtConversationHappenings Author:Alison Stewart
“I also talk about building a wall and oftentimes I'll say, and there's going to be a big beautiful door in that wall and people are going to come into our country because we want people to come in. We want people to come into our country, but we want them to come in legally.” PeopleWantCountryBigsBeautifulDoorsBuildingWallOur Country Author:Donald Trump
“In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."” PeopleIfsWayArtWhiteLevelsExpressionWallProofClarityMathematicalWorks Of ArtGalleryComposingGeometricMathematical ProofWhite Walls Author:Eyvind Kang
“It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.” PeopleTryingLooksKindLittlesWallSane Author:John Gallagher, Jr.
“Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.” PeopleYearsFirstsSaidDifferentChristianTogetherChristChurchBrokenWallPicksFirst TimeFemaleOriginalsMalesJewStrangerScriptureWelcomeGreekVersesEthnicityDividingBroken DownGentilesTogether As OneAntioch Author:Michael Emerson
“I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.” PeopleLittlesWholeStoriesWalksMagicWallProjectsMirrorsCoveredCabinetsCountrysideLanternsPeepholes Author:Danielle Dutton
“But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.” PeopleKnowsDifferentCharacterRememberProcessDecisionSeeingWallDrawingVersionsExecutivesRocketsRealisedJuliet Author:Matt Lucas
“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.” PeopleRealFeelingsRealityJobsHouseWhiteTalkingWonderClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallPercentQuittingMiddle ClassWhite HouseUnemploymentGood JobNotableTalking Heads Author:Jim Clifton
“Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” PeopleHeartKindPersonsOur LivesRelationshipWallLonelyBridgesFootprint Author:Joseph Fort Newton
“I think what happened with Brandy [Burre]is what happens with a lot of people. You make these decisions for comfort and stability, and then eventually those same things that are comforting and stable end up putting walls around you that you didn't expect.” PeopleThinkingEndsHappensDecisionHappenedWallComfortStabilityStableComfortingBrandy Author:Robert Greene
“I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.” PeopleKnowsJobsFatherLosesResultsSawsWallUnionsEmployedEuropean Union Author:Michael Gove
“That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.” PeopleWayMeanLittlesKidsSongBitsSituationRichWallLittle BitExtrasRich Kids Author:Ladyhawke
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.” PeopleWritingHeartLongTwoWarFightingGamesDestinyWallBattleShotsVoteFinalsBritishDecadesCivil WarHistorianCrownsUnnecessaryHollowJohnsonPoorestCameronReferendumsEton Author:Brian Reade
“As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.” PeopleLooksFallThreeDemocracyDoorsMovementWallDevelopmentEuropeEasternGlobalizationBerlinEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallEurozoneFree Movement Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Encircled and provoked, Russia is once again turning into a mighty monolithic defense wall. Its people are ready! They want peace, above anything else. But if they'd have to fight for their own survival, and for the survival of the world, they will.” PeopleIfsWorldWantFightingReadyWallSurvivalDefenseRussiaProvoked Author:Andre Vltchek
“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.” PeopleWantTryingValuesInterestLosesStreetsWallNegativeRaisesStrategyRateFinancialFundFedsEngineeringCollapseInterest RateGimmicksHedge Fund Author:Michael Hudson
“We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsPainTogetherRememberHumanityForceMorningPossibilityThis WorldWallTransformationSticksFingersEvery Morning Author:Shane Claiborne
“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidMomentsRealityRememberForceChallengesWallYears AgoExileShrinesLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“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 only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.” PeopleThinkingReasonArtistLinesOur LivesWallReflectionReason WhyEms Author:El-P
“So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.” PeopleMenHappensTogetherWallMen And WomenIntelligentFoolishThings HappenSettlingDividesIntelligent Man Author:Louis Farrakhan
“There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.” PeopleWallDistanceClintonZone Author:David Brooks
“Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.” PeopleFallSecurityWallFormerSecretaryConferencesNatoMunich Author:Vladimir Putin
“People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.” PeopleLooksLittlesPersonsRoomsEnvironmentFrontsWallOfficeBoardsControlledRebelDesksCartoonDecorationUninspiringBulletin Board Author:Frank Gehry
“Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.” PeopleFeelsLooksFactsTodayStreetsWallPercentMalesInvestingFinancialFirmAdviser Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I found that the walls that are created by the institutions of health care are very problematic, and I felt not good about giving people pills and procedures and then sending them back out to the things that were making them sick in the first place.” PeopleGivingFirstsCareFoundFeltWallSickInstitutionsHealth CarePillsProcedures Author:Jill Stein
“An entire wall in my home is covered with framed pictures of my family and friends. It's nice to go home after a long week of traveling for work and be reminded of memories with the people I love.” PeopleLongHomeMemoriesNiceWeekWallMy FamilyCoveredFamily And FriendsFramedLong Week Author:Karlie Kloss
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton