“Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.” PeopleRealNationsEconomyStreetsWallDebateIdeologyBordersFarmersFactoriesSavagesGlobalizationConstraints Author:Marine Le Pen
“In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "I threw it against the wall!" Which, in my opinion, was a compliment. Because it's very hard to get somebody to throw something.” PeopleWritingSaidBookHardWantedStuffOpinionWallHatedComplimentThey Said Author:Tama Janowitz
“The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.” PeopleTryingWarRunningEffortOpinionTearsWallWindowAffairPsychologicalPropagandaPhenomenonFrighteningManipulateIraq War Author:Michael Hastings
“When Mr.Trump says he wants to help all Americans, he means he wants to help all Americans in the 1% by really letting Wall Street get a huge debt from the 99% of the Americans. It's just the opposite of what people believe.” PeopleBelieveMeanHelpingWall Author:Michael Hudson
“There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.” PeopleTogetherSpecialWallMusic Is Author:Nas
“People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it's much more complicated. The parasite can't simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn't realize the parasite's there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host's brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.” PeopleThinkingDoneRealizingBrainEconomyImagineWallComplicatedHostImagine ThatNumb Author:Michael Hudson
“Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.” PeopleRealValuesWallEmptyUnnecessaryEconomistPretenseMortgage Author:Michael Hudson
“Denial of numerous problems can happen in any organization, and I don't mean this as flip or negative as it's going to sound, but you see it a lot in corporate cultures right before they hit a wall. People tell themselves a story that it can turn around, it's going to turn around, we're doing all the right things, and then that story lasts until it's literally no longer sustainable or believable.” PeopleMeanProblemCultureWallNegativeDenialRight Thing Author:Chris Lowney
“We're going to stand with working people. We're going to take on the billionaire class. We're going the take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. We're going the take on Wall Street. That's where I think the future of the Democratic Party lies.” PeopleThinkingLyingPartyWallDrugDemocraticDemocratic PartyBillionaireInsurance Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“I have supported candidates whose views are very different than mine on the need the break up Wall Street banks, on the war in Iraq, on trade issues. Of course I have supported those people. My hope is that we're going to see - and I believe it is the case - we're going to see more and more strong progressives running for office. That's my hope. That's my desire. But that is up to - that decision is going to be made by people in 50 states and 435 congressional districts.” PeopleBelieveDifferentWarRunningDesireStrongI BelieveDecisionBreakWallOfficeTrade Author:Bernie Sanders
“What really made me want to get involved in politics was seeing the rise of the antichrist Donald Trump. I started to see how he was energizing the country, but he was energizing the country in total opposite ways than Barack did. He wasn't bringing people together; he was literally tearing people apart. He literally wants to build a wall while I feel like Barack Obama's rise actually built bridges.” PeopleCountryTogetherWallBarackGet InvolvedAntichrist Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the sand. Now I see that I was just prancing around my magical circle while the walls of my prison were being erected by other people.” PeopleWallPrisonI RealizedStuckSand Author:James Wasserman
“Whatever your business - I don't care if it's radio, if it's Wall Street, if it's mainstream retail, whatever you do - do not hang around people who failed at it. Whatever you do, do not take guidance from people who failed at it - unless they, at some point, succeeded. Everybody who fails is bitter, and failures often blame everybody else.” PeopleCareFailingWallBlameBitterGuidance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. And - also, if you do become a Wall Street banker, I think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. But you need to think about - am I harming people through the work that I'm doing?” PeopleThinkingGivingCharacterTermAbilityWallCharityBeing The BestPersistDaily WorkEarning Money Author:Peter Singer
“Let me list to you some of the things that we've done in just a short period of time. Again, each of these actions is a promise I made to the American people. We've withdrawn from the job-killing disaster known as Trans-Pacific Partnership. We're going to make trade deals, but we're going to have one-on-one deals, bilateral. We are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border. We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare.” PeopleDoneActionWallPromiseLet MeTradeDisasterSouthernPartnership Author:Donald Trump
“Because of the amount of press attention, people went to see this dirty bed, as if it was a freak show. But when they got there, they saw something else - the bed, stuff on the walls, whatever. For the Tate, it's the highest attendance they ever received for the Turner Prize show. There was a massive queue, and when you got into my bit, you couldn't move.” PeopleMovingAttentionWallDirtyPrizeFreak Author:Tracey Emin
“If you can't bring them down economically you kill them, that's how you promote equality. You build a wall to keep them in the country. Socialism, communism, build walls to make sure people can't get out. In a country that's communist and builds a wall, there's nobody trying to get in. Works every time it's tried.” PeopleTryingCountryWallSocialismCommunismCommunist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Because I wrote a book about Goldman Sachs. And I know that, from talking to people at Goldman Sachs, that Trump is the poster child for the kind of client they don't want to do business with, mainly because he would borrow all this money from Wall Street to build his casinos, and then didn't pay it back.” PeopleKindChildrenBookWallPosters Author:William D. Cohan
“The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.” PeopleWallAccepted Author:Alan Bersin
“I'm practical, very data-driven and process-oriented. I'm very objective and analytical about everything. Ninety-five percent of situations on the wall are not that dangerous. Most people look at the climb and think, 'that's crazy.' But when you know the intricacies of your gear, the belay situation and the forces involved, it's pretty safe.” PeopleThinkingSituationCrazyDangerousWall Author:Kevin Jorgeson
“I believe we should build a wall - it might or might not slow immigration but it's worth a try and certainly that would provide political cover for the right when they compromise on other approaches to immigration. On the other hand, I believe there should be a path to citizenship for people who have been law-abiding except for having coming to the U.S. illegally.” PeopleTryingBelievePoliticalI BelievePathWallImmigrationCompromiseCitizenship Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.” PeopleMeanCountryHomePartyBoysSpecialLike YouWallPoliticianRepublicanStrongerDemocraticHolidayRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:John Kasich
“We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed. But somehow in Washington today - and I'm afraid on Wall Street - greed is rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption - or certainly failure to carry out our responsibility is rewarded.” PeopleTodayResponsibilityWallSucceedGreedCorruption Author:John McCain
“We have a raising wages agenda. And that includes tax policy, trade policy. TPP is a very bad agreement. Covers 40 percent of the world's economy, and it will cost us jobs. It's not well-drafted. It's an agreement, an investment agreement that will benefit Wall Street a lot, but not working people.” PeopleEconomyPolicyWallTaxesTradeInvestment Author:Richard Trumka
“My view is, in between environmental determinism and personal responsibility, we say, "where there's a will there's a way." It's not true. You really need both and they're somewhat independent. We must both cultivate will and pave the way. If you inspire an impassioned people so that they have the will but there's no way, all around them are walls with no doors or windows. It's terribly frustrating. On the other hand, if you put a very nice way at their feet and they have no will to follow it, that doesn't produce anything very good either. Will is not way. You need both.” PeopleResponsibilityNiceInspireWallWindowIndependentEnvironmentalVery GoodFrustratingPersonal ResponsibilityVery NiceDeterminism Author:David Katz
“I think it's silly when people try compartmentalize musical genres. That was always my problem with the chillwave thing - people were trying to make it into some kind of musical movement, when it was not a movement. A couple dudes had a couple songs for a couple months. It's going to be a disparate onslaught of people throwing ideas at the wall.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindProblemSongWallCoupleMusicalSilly Author:Memory Tapes
“I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealCharacterKidsFilmAttentionAudienceWorstStyleWallAdvertisingBloodySophisticatedAmerican Movie Author:Mike Leigh
“Donald Trump's opponents believe are governing illegal immigration, the racism and so forth that they believe is why Trump wants to build a wall, because the nation is racist. The people that want to end illegal immigration, according to these idiots, are racists and bigots. They couldn't see they are way clear to understand that illegal immigration wasn't being talked about.” PeopleBelieveWallRacismImmigrationIdiotRacistIllegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The ways in which management can express appreciation for an employee's contribution are without end; the key is to act in ways that communicate Thanks! That was a great job! We can really count on you! It's great having you here! While some people love having plaques to hang on their personal Wall of Fame and they adore being acknowledged at a formal Recognition Banquet and some people are only interested in money, I find the most effective forms of recognition are personal and either spontaneous or very close in time to a significant accomplishment.” PeopleWallFameManagementCommunicateAppreciationSignificantThanksRecognitionAccomplishmentSpontaneousAdoreGreat Job Author:Judith M Bardwick
“What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingKindImportantAchieveDangerWallCongoRwanda Author:Anjan Sundaram
“Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set about trying to create circumstances where people think nobody will lose. But everybody loses under communism. They eventually have to build walls around countries to keep people in, as in the Berlin Wall.” PeopleThinkingTryingCountryWallCircumstancesCommunismWinnerCommunistLoserBerlin Wall Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A lot of people will tell you the first step to starting something new is to have an idea. But to me the first step starts long before that. The first step to acting like an entrepreneur is to look not at the writing on the wall but at the spaces between the writing. It's in the gap between what's being said and what's not being said that entrepreneurs thrive. The way to get going is to find the courage to take your dream out of your head and put it to the test in the real world. Don't just think it; act on it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingLongRealDreamActingWallEntrepreneurThriveSomething NewReal World Author:Linda Rottenberg
“I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's gonna start to swing back. That's my optimism. One of the cures is gonna be getting the American people to fully wake up. All the American people, particularly young people, because they're gonna inherit this earth; they're gonna inherit what we're doing.” PeopleEarthWallOptimismWake UpHave Faith Author:Robert Redford
“After all this brouhaha Washington, Donald Trump lands in Florida" If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing." Trump says there will eventually be a border wall and there won't be amnesty for DREAMers. But they're going to allowed to stay. People say, "W-w-well, wait a minute, now. If you're letting 'em stay, how is that not amnesty?" Well, they're not gonna be made automatic citizens.” PeopleWaitingWallDreamer Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's something exhilarating about telling stories that haven't been shared before and haven't been told publicly before. The last thing I want to be doing is telling stories other people have already told. That's not to say that there isn't important work out there about people in positions of power, but I know my strength. Even when I was at the Wall Street Journal 10 years ago, this is what I wrote about.” PeopleImportantWallWork OutExhilaratingWall Street Journal Author:Alex Kotlowitz
“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.” PeopleRealProblemWallDrugWesternLifestyleIndulgeIranianPersianOpium Author:Hooman Majd
“I didn't choose to be a guitar player. That was something that felt like it was chosen for me. And with that blessing and curse, I, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. And whether I'm standing in the streets of Chicago or the Occupy Wall Street or in Madison, Wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level, for the things that I believe in.” PeopleBelieveFightingI BelieveJusticeStrugglePlayerWallBlessingSocial JusticeConvictionChosenCurseSailVocationBackboneGuitar Player Author:Tom Morello
“With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.” PeopleArtWallFramed Author:Eric Drooker
“I had a lot of preconceived notions going in the Wall Street. It wasn't an industry that I really respected much. My feeling was kind of like look, you're not making anything. You're taking money from one place, putting it in another and taking your cut and that's just not really kind of soul-satisfying at the end of the day, but what I learned is, on a larger scale is how much the Wall Street industry funnels and fuels so many others. There is a lot of good that these guys do, and to lump all traders into a category is as insane as lumping any group of people into one category.” PeopleKindFeelingsGuyCuttingWallInsanePreconceived Notions Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I had a lot of fun with those guys from the Wall Street. The laughter is unlike most settings you'll find. The level of intensity, the adrenaline, the stakes are incredible. I mean it is addictive. I can understand why people end up spending 23 or 24 hours a day hitting it.” PeopleMeanGuyFunHoursWallLaughterIncrediblesAdrenaline Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and documentary filmmaking. In documentaries, you have to deal with real people and their real feelings - you are working with real laughter, happiness, sadness. To try to reflect the reality is not the same as reality itself. That's why I think that making a good documentary is much harder than making a good feature film.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealFeelingsRealityFilmSadnessWallLaughterFilmmaking Author:Mano Khalil
“At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith. Faith is a strange and wonderful thing. You come up to a kind of wall of unknowing and instead of turning back in despair you leap over it into something else. The Church isn't why I'm a writer, but it's probably a part of it.” PeopleKindChurchWonderfulStrangeWallDespairOver ItLeapUnknowing Author:Ayana Mathis
“There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are calling for the eradication of Islam and want to build a wall along an arbitrary line that keeps Mexicans out of the land they probably have more of a right to cross than the people who now somehow think they have a right to be there.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHateWallSkinsElectionIslam Author:John Lurie
“There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.” PeopleMenWallBusinessman Author:Oliver Stone
“When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.” PeopleThinkingWorldCommunityChallengesPathFeminismWallIslamIslamicProgressiveMaking ChangesExtremism Author:Asra Nomani
“Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in the air and perhaps always has been. The Great Wall of China has been there for a great long time. People have always tried to keep foreigners out. There is a very natural desire, once you've got somewhere cozy, to keep it to yourself, and equally there's a very strong impulse for those who are not at such a safe and prosperous place to try and get in. It's been creating conflict throughout human history.” PeopleTryingLongDesireStrongNaturalWallConflictImpulseUnusualVery StrongMexicanProsperous Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett
“Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.” PeopleHeartBlackSonWallDaughterSlaveryCousinSegregationAuntGeographyNephew Author:Linda Hirshman
“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsShouldStreetsBuildingWallEmptyHeyThievesHousingSquatters Author:Al Lewis
“I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.” PeopleWallHolesFancyRestaurantsTrendyCool People Author:Tyra Banks
“The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.” PeopleEconomyStreetsWallPercentCorporateExecutives Author:Michael Moore