Desperate Quotes - Page 12

• I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Students, These Days, Awake

  "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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• I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

  Jo Brand

  Book, Issues, Feminist

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

  Julian Fellowes

  Siege, Lays, Hard

  "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.

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• 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Ensemble, Great Friend

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• I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Dark, People

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• For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Loan

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Roots, Racism

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, People

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• There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

  Anne Hathaway

  People, Patterns, Habit

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• I am desperate to do a comedy now.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Comedy

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• We celebrities are desperate pigs.

  Penn Jillette

  Pigs

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.28, Penguin

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• I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

  John Lydon

  Ideas, Musical, Fabulous

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• Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Practice, Needs, Treats

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2015

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• It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

  Moby

  Home, America, People

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• As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

  Alan Moore

  People, Wave, Turns

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.65, PublicAffairs

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• I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

  Michelle Obama

  Years, Right Now

  "First Lady in Waiting". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. December 27, 2007.

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• Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

  John Podhoretz

  People, May, Obsessed

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• My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Cities, London

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• Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

  John C. Reilly

  Father, Kids, Creating

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• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  Pat Robertson

  Haiti, Poverty

  "Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘Cursed’ By ‘Pact To The Devil’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

  Paul Ryan

  Records, Opponents, Silent

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

  Dan Savage

  Running, Depressing, Dad

  "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.

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• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Believe, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

  Robert Smith

  Two, Black, Months

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