Desperate Quotes - Page 34

• As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

  Sergio Perez

  Dream, Winning, Race

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Problem

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katic Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

  David Platt

  Girl, Baby, Sex

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

  Rob Bell

  Justice, Restoration

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• No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dwelling, Space, Beloved

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.

  Tina Fey

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Journey

  "Tina Fey interview: 'My two-year-old will very sincerely try to choke me to death'" by Terri White, www.timeout.com. March 17 2014.

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• Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.

  Ai Weiwei

  Daughter, Support You, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Letting Go, Humor

  "Ellen is back and she’s ready to dance". Interview with The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 1, 2005.

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• At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Needs, Should

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• New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.

  Scott Cohen

  New York, Home, Artist

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Apology, Sides, Apologizing

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• We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

  Jill Bennett

  Romantic Love, Needs, Done

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• Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

  Fritz Leiber

  New York, Gun, Cities

  Fritz Leiber, Fred Gambino (1979). “Ship of Shadows”

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• Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

  Charles Mackay

  Punishment, Individual, Sooner Or Later

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.67

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• Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

  Charles Mackay

  Pieces, Paper, Causes

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.8

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, School

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

  Don Marquis

  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.

  Jack Black

  Girl, School, Years

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

  Bruce Dern

  School, Actors, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, People, Want

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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