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The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it
I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
When I'm desperate for spring produce but nothing has hit the farmstand yet, frozen green peas are a godsend.
In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.
Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.
I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.
I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
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.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
In Chhattisgarh, there is no Narendra Modi factor; people know that he only speaks lies and is desperate to become prime minister.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
I was never desperate to make a comeback. But winning 'Bigg Boss' assured faith in me that I have a good reputation in the market.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.