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• Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Trying, Use, More Money

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• There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
  And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
  My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
  My head in my hands down on my knees

  Stevie Nicks

  Dark, Eagles, Hands

  Song: Sometimes It's A Bitch

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• What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Party, Two

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

  Hadley Freeman

  Acceptance, Insecure, Logos

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• Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

  Alina Bronsky

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Lovely, Awful

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Law, Drug Cartels

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Lying, Teaching

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• Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Groups, Dangerous

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• The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Weakness, Hollywood

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• In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

  Twyla Tharp

  World, Clock, Profit

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• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

  Trent Reznor

  Jumping, Desperate Situations, Advantage

  "Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Neala Johnson, www.heraldsun.com.au. May 16, 2007.

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• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Motivational, Leadership, Iron

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

  Edward Abbey

  Serious, Too Late, Situation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

  Homer

  Football, Beer, Dirt

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• One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

  Eric Carle

  Thinking, Swings, Ideas

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Revenge, Blood

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• These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

  Rand Paul

  Office, Leader, Campaigns

  "Rand Paul On Civil Rights Controversy: I Shouldn’t Have Talked To Rachel Maddow" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.

  Sally Mann

  Feelings, Cameras, Looks

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• It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Sex, Zimbabwe

  Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Fear, Animal

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• The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

  Bette Davis

  Sex, Men, Humanity

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• Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

  Anita Hamilton

  Single, Love Is, Bridget Jones

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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