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The Aspirations

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Staten Island Ferry Terminal, Manhattan

I want to get out of here. Actually, I work in the building right over there and we we just got swamped. So, I'm actually going to be here kind of late, but I want to go early so I can go on this date I have planned. That's one...
I want. . . well obviously everyone wants a full life, a colorful life, a flavorful life. Excitement. Passion. I want to feel like I'm helping people, to know what love is, to know that I am making the world a better place which is cheesey, but true.
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M & V Parking Lot, Euclid Avenue Brooklyn

"I want MONEY!"
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Staten Island Ferry Terminal, Manhattan

WOMAN:
I want to be happy, own my business and move to a nice warm climate.

MAN:
I don't want to say. . .

WOMAN:
Say it. . . what ever you want.

MAN:
I want to leave New York. I don't like it.

What do you want in the next five minutes?

MAN:
One thousand dollars.

WOMAN:
A million.

Is that enough?

WOMAN:
No. Actually money's is not really the issue. It's more like -- sanity -- and enough time to spend with my children. The business deal is to be able to spend more time with my family.

What do you want for your children?

MAN:
A better life.

WOMAN:
I want them to be like me, only have the chance to go to college which I didn't get to do, basically.

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Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn

I was born here. I've been here all my life. I'm a Coney Island baby.
What do you want for your family?
Happiness. I just signed my daughter up for Barbizon. So I want her to succeed. To see her in magazines, see everyone happy.
What do you want for yourself?
Happiness and to have my daugther succeed where I didn't.
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M & V Parking Lot, Euclid Avenue Brooklyn

I want to see mankind at peace with each other. I want to see us finally understand that the reason we were all brought here on one planet was to live together. And if we try to deal with each other and accept our differences and just know that they are blessings in that one big pot called the world that we will all be much happier for it. And we should teach our children so that they can go on from generation to generation.
When we are all in pain and our worlds are at war we seem to manage to know how to come together then. But why does it take tragedy? Why does it take death? Why does it take pain? Why can't it just be love that brings us together?
What did it feel like to jump?
It felt exhilarating, I actually felt the child in me rear up for a moment.
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Staten Island Ferry Terminal, Manhattan

It's a Friday afternoon and I had a pretty bad day. I just want to go home and take my shoes off.
What did it feel like to jump?
Sore. I wrenched my knee playing rugby last night. Did I feel free or liberated? Certainly I did, but actually it hurt. That's what you get for free and liberated.
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Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx

What do you want to be when you grow up?

BOY(L):
I got that question planned out. When I grow up, I want to be a doctor or a mechanic, or a computer technician person.

BOY(R):
I want to be a basketball player and a wrestler.

What do you think the future is going to look like?

BOY(L):
Really cool. Everything is going to be different.

BOY(R):
Like the parks are going to be different and the pool -- they'll make it even bigger

BOY(L):
. . .and deeper. And that garbage can won't be here.

BOY(R):
and also people won't even throw a lot of food in the floor.

BOY(L):
Laws will change. . .

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