“I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.” ThinkingYearsLittlesFeelingsFilmUsedSoundLinesSpacePaySawsWallYears AgoWindowTheaterOriginalsI RealizedUsed To BeBotherProjectionSupermarketsMovie TheaterSound Of MusicAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.” ThinkingHappenedStreetsWallDestructiveGeneral PublicDestructive Power Author:Cathy O'Neil
“Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.” ThinkingWinningWallTrumpCongressBordersMexicanMexican Border Author:Gary Shilling
“I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.” ThinkingKnowsTermStreetsWallCoupleBailouts Author:Warren Buffett
“I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along, I mean, you know, the guys look better all the time, the music sounds better, it's more and more fun, you think why the hell should I leave at quarter of 12. I'll leave at two minutes to 12. But the trouble is, there are no clocks on the wall. And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldLooksMeanTwoGuyTurnsFunSoundHellTroubleMinutesWallEveningClockQuartersShould IMiceMidnightPumpkin Author:Warren Buffett
“What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.” ThinkingWayMatterFactsLanguageMagicWallAcceptedTalesPsychologicalFairyGatesFairy TaleIntroducingFoxesMatter Of Fact Author:Alice Hoffman
“If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentPlayHappensMovingGivenProcessUnderstandingRolesEconomyStreetsWallConsequenceEconomicsFinancialMoving ForwardBroadsRegulationRealistTransactionsGlobal Economy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingJobsAmericaSimpleWallComfortableMessagesDefeatCome UpCompellingIsis Author:Bruce Springsteen
“If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.” IfsThinkingKindStillsImportantKidsLife IsStreetsWallTrumpMaking MoneyPlaces To Go Author:Michael Lewis
“In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.” ThinkingPurposeFunStreetsChangedWall Author:Michael Lewis
“Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.” ThinkingPersonsSaidMightChristianRememberBuildingWallTrumpBridgesPopeRemarksDisgracefulBuilding BridgesBuilding Walls Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.” PeopleThinkingFirstsCharacterBodyLiteratureIndividualAnimalWallHistoricalStorytellingIntimacyOur FamilyGenericPortraitureDocumentationSpecifics Author:Kiki Smith
“I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindSaidEndsShowsBitsCareersHugeWallHonorOffersOkayChinaCirclesIronicHostThey SaidSilkFull CircleGreat WallGreat Wall Of China Author:David Copperfield
“I think Donald Trump is a master of moving on from losses when he suffered them, and if he can`t find a way in the short term to get the wall paid for by Mexico, I think he`ll Trumpet the fact that the wall is being built.” IfsThinkingWayFactsMovingTermLossMastersWallTrumpBuiltPaidMexicoShort TermTrumpets Author:Mark Halperin
“I don`t think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there`s no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn`t make any sense either.” ThinkingWayWantForcePayWallTrumpExpecting Author:John Yarmuth
“I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.” PeopleThinkingCultureCenturyWallPopsDecadesTowersColleaguesPop CultureIvoryIvory Tower Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsAbleEnergyBuildingHugeWallAmountMetsPicksVideoMakeupTapeElectricityCarbon Author:Peter James
“What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.” PeopleThinkingMadeGuyBeliefClassRichStreetsMiddleStudentsWallFinancialDebtMiddle ClassThis GuyLoanBankersStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsPersonsRealJobsMovingFallHouseSidesHoursHurtSeeingSkyWallThreatIsraelBlockBombsHospitalsTerritoryPalestinianBoth SidesGazaMazesHamasGaza Strip Author:Morgan Spurlock
“Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidBigsActionForeverStreetsMovementWallMonthsImpactEnormousParksTacticsGreat SuccessBig Impact Author:Noam Chomsky
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.” ThinkingMayPersonsChristianBuildingWallBridgesBuilding BridgesBuilding Walls Author:Pope Francis
“I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.” IfsThinkingMadeDifferentCountryAmericaUsedCultureSpeakWallIdealsTraditionDistanceImmigrantsPrivilegedHomelessExileDifferent CulturesNewcomers Author:Pico Iyer
“I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10 I dreamt of making animated cartoons as loops, something you could just project on your wall and look at from time to time. Kind of, something to stare at, something that's always there.” ThinkingWayLooksKindStoriesAgeRememberInterestingWallProjectsStaringNot InterestedCartoonAnimatedLoopsYour Wall Author:Jim Jarmusch
“My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating on them. So, I think they probably saw it as being rather peculiar, that I was doing that sort of thing, but nobody ever suggested I shouldn't be doing it. I think that would be different on Madison Avenue or Wall Street, where you're really expected to be doing 110 percent for the company.” ThinkingWritingDifferentWallCheating Author:Ted Kooser
“There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.” ThinkingTryingDoubtWallCommitmentRanRhetoric Author:Raul Grijalva
“The establishment Trump talked about wasn’t really Wall Street. He said, “When Washington got rich.” Bernie Sanders would have said, “When Wall Street got rich, the country didn’t.” So I think when Donald Trump says "Washington," what he means is the government regulatory agencies.” ThinkingMeanCountryRichWall Author:Michael Hudson
“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
“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
“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
“Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.” ThinkingDifferentTogetherCultureWallExcitingClashGraffiti Author:Ian Bremmer
“I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its strongest quality. That you're alone in a room, that you're cut off, you're just sort of stuck with it. It puts up a wall.” ThinkingQualityCuttingWallStuck Author:Daphne Merkin
“Trump's not showing up and trying to politely insert himself in political system and the way politicians do things. He's not trying to ingratiate himself. He doesn't care. He's elected to do specific things. His campaign, his agenda, his rallies, a very long list of specific things, and he reminded everybody, if you're thinking he's not gonna build a wall, if you're thinking that was just chatter, I'd change my mind if I were you.” ThinkingTryingMindLongCarePoliticalWallPoliticianInsert Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border. But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.” ThinkingImportantTermSecurityWallBarriersSecretaryUrbanFenceConfirmation 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 think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20 or 100. One of the things a painting does is to make the room look better. It improves the wall that it's on. Which is much harder than it looks. And that's a good thing. And if one engages with a painting on that level, that's fine, that's great. After some time, familiarity, the other things that a painting does, the other layers, they just start to make themselves felt.” ThinkingMeanArtPaintingWallGood ThingsGood WorkFamiliarity Author:David Salle
“And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused on how fast I'm going, how fast I'm feeling, and pretty much block everything out, the sounds, the sights, just kind of listen to the rhythm of the water, and just maintaining the same stroke, the same rhythm, the same tempo, and thinking about how I want to get my hand to the wall.” ThinkingKindMeanSometimesFeelingsWaterWallFocusedBlockRhythmSwim Author:Katie Ledecky
“Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.” ThinkingGuyGrowthWallSmartOver YouSovietSoviet UnionGreat PowerBrick Wall Author:Adam Kinzinger
“Wall Street was sort of at the height of the fame, everyone thought it was really cool, and I think taking that job, doing something probably more for the money was probably the worst thing I think I've ever done.” ThinkingDoneWorstWallFameReally Cool Author:Anne Wojcicki
“Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.” ThinkingWallMusic IsLogicalCommodityPopular Music Author:Eef Barzelay
“I think the best conversation to have been able to eavesdrop on was the one the minute after it was called that Trump would be the next president of the Unites States. Because by all indications, it does not seem anybody thought they were going to win. That is the moment I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. Or, like, in the microwave, whatever.” ThinkingMomentsWinningWishPresidentWall Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice. And if he says that Hillary Clinton is worse than a openly racist, Muslim-hating misogynist who wants to build a wall to exclude Mexicans, who thinks that a judge, an American judge because of his Mexican lineage cannot be fair to him, if you`re saying that Hillary Clinton is worse than all that, then I just think that that just is ridiculous, it`s absurd, and it really starts to damage the speaker`s credibility.” ThinkingMomentsChoicesMoralJudgingWallClintonRidiculousAbsurdRacistSpeakersMexicanCredibility Author:Keith Ellison
“A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm good friends with this film collective, Red Bucket, which made Daddy Longlegs and The Pleasure Of Being Robbed. They're climbing the walls. They're all making cartoon booklets now, because they can't raise the funds to make another movie. But I think that when it returns, which it hopefully will, there will be another surge of energy.” ThinkingFilmEnergyPleasureStruggleWallHopefullyFundGood FriendCartoonDaddy Author:Greta Gerwig
“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
“You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.” ThinkingKindReasonCuttingWallFoolSceneKeep GoingBe PreparedImprovisationGems Author:Rafe Spall
“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
“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
“I think Donald Trump laid out a series of priorities that doesn't ends with border security. It begins with border security. And after we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.” ThinkingSecurityWallPriorities Author:Mike Pence
“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
“Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't get rid of it, when I try not to think about it and yet it's ambushing me all the time. I'm thrown up against a wall. The idea is saying to me, "You have to pay attention to me because I am going to be the future of your life for the next year or two or five." Then I submit. I get into it. It's something that becomes so necessary to me that I can't live without doing that project.” ThinkingTryingAttentionWallPay AttentionLazySubmit Author:Paul Auster