Desperate Quotes - Page 7

• I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Government, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

  Isaac Asimov

  Grateful, Thinking, Humanity

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• I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Party, Believe, People

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Tree, Growing

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• I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Crush, Gay, People

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• Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Ghetto, Two

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• I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

  Vera Farmiga

  Compassion, Giving, Receiving

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, People, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Attention, Emergencies

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• The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Grace, Addict

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  Nate Berkus

  Dream, Brother, Boys

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• My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Eight, Dvds, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

  Robert Mankoff

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

  Eric Kripke

  Real, People, The End Of The Day

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Car, Driven, Used

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• I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could never be declared a saint 'cause she never actually performed a miracle. And it was towards the end, she was desperate to perform a miracle, so she would go up to starving children and go, 'What's that behind your ear? It's a quarter!

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mother, Children, Miracle

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• I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

  Kelly Osbourne

  People, Married, After Break Up

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• I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Moving, Kids, Museums

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• We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

  Justine Kurland

  Growing Up, Struggle, Artist

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• My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

  Quincy Jones

  Brother, Real, Cancer

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.

  Luke Haines

  Grateful, Mean, Rocks

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• I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

  Michael Gira

  Stupid, People, Trying

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• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Florida, Groups, Citizenship

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Hero, Long

  "Molly Ivins: Not. backing. Hillary." by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2006.

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