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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Hernan Cortes
Success
War
Prosperity
Victory
Honor
Everything
Seek
Thus
Another
Idol
Idols
Labors
Which
Petition
Serve
Desire
I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to scream and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence dictated they should demand.
Hilton Als
Music
Black
Example
Whatever
White
Community
Considered
Folk
Black Community
Some
Adolescence
More
Demand
Soulless
Disco
Rock
Caucasian
Perpetual
Yell
Up
Dictated
Privilege
Just
Scream
Grew
Just One
Should
Largely
Desire
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.
Hisham Matar
Success
Failure
Language
Elsewhere
Adopt
Remain
Excites
Demanded
Over
New
Like
Also
Judged
Still
Leave
Go
Effort
Form
Whether
Again
Conversion
Means
Languages
Switching
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Start
Desire
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard Aiken
Time
Science
Old
Mental
Computation
Arithmetic
Economize
Error
Itself
Effort
Human
Eliminate
Desire
Liability
I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.
Howard Jacobson
Woman
Laughter
Back
Throw
Head
Hot
Felt
Always
Get
Her
Thing
Desire
I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.
Howie Mandel
Insatiable
Attention
Center
Desire
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
Writing
Must
Write
Accompanied
Then
Actual
Desire
I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.
Hunter Biden
Best
Focus
Relation
Corporate
Facilitate
Investigation
Had
Globally
Practices
Limited
Governance
Expand
Role
Officers
Whatsoever
Any
Explicitly
Desire
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart
You
People
Young
Drama
Fathers
Out
Part
Parts
Get
Any
Going
Convention
Young People
Dads
Play
Start
Playing
Desire
Nightclubs
Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.
Ibrahim Hooper
Terrorism
Property
Extremists
Though
Members
Some
Outlets
Seizing
Federal
Armed
Terrorists
Refer
Domestic
Textbook
Die
Description
Even
Expressing
Media
Militia
Desire
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
Ida Lupino
Man
World
No Desire
Had
Crash
Desire
I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
Iliza Shlesinger
Day
Religion
Yourself
Giving
Sit
Think
Thinking
All Day
Torah
Part
Around
Question
Just
Being
Room
Breeds
Things
Innate
Desire
Jewish
Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
Ingrid Betancourt
Forgiveness
You
Emotions
Speak
Reflection
Will
Others
Intimate
Something
Only
Also
Because
Intellect
Very
Personal
Your
Thing
Desire
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
Ingrid Newkirk
People
Impossible
Animals
Humane
Birds
Percent
More
Small
Come
Sheer
Makes
Were
America
Hugely
Eggs
Them
Us
Produced
Farms
Meat
Even
Milk
Satisfy
Raise
Raised
Desire
Number
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
Irvine Welsh
World
Better
Feeling
Become
Live
Ways
Cartoonish
More
Feel
Like
Safe
Operate
Genuinely
Real
Real Feeling
Lot
Quite
Want
Transgress
Grotesque
Harder
Level
Desire
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt
Future
Faith
Great
Progress
Cause
Sympathy
His
Person
May
Mankind
Should
Who
Serve
Lump
Humanist
Humanitarian
Creed
Desire
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
Truth
Science
Primarily
Scientist
Motivated
Curiosity
Desire
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
Isabelle Huppert
You
Matter
Decision
Made
Once
Intimate
More
Identified
How
Personal
Artistic
Want
Then
Reasons
Deep
Film
Why
Things
Desire
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Air
Attack
Sincerely
Force
Command
Commander
Chief
May
Personally
Fleet
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
Desire
I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievements and my desire to improve the world, but also my commitment to my Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish culture.
Itzhak Perlman
Culture
Commitment
World
Values
Jewish Culture
Honored
Recognizing
Genesis
Also
Identity
Am
Prize
Improve
Just
Achievements
Professional
Receive
Desire
Humbled
Jewish
A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.
Jacqueline Bisset
Work
Relationship
You
Personality
Too Much
Mask
Too
Bit
Point
Like
Always
Lot
Where
Much
Your
Hard
Actor
Basic
Desire
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Jacques Delors
Welfare
Responsible
Must
Excess
Lead
Nobody
Equity
Where
Anything
Desire
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida
Pure
Believe
Think
Sign
Writes
Idioms
Irreplaceable
Manner
Speaks
Naturally
Whoever
Desire
I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.
Jada Pinkett Smith
You
School
Will
Everybody
Definitely
Clear
Idea
Institution
Know
Make
Around
Educational
Been
Lot
Very
Want
Teach
Desire
Buzz
I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.
Jade Jagger
Christmas
Satisfied
Everything
Bit
Find
Never
Unsettled
Mess
Match
Very
Get
Little
Little Bit
Hard
Fully
Desire
There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.
Jake Johnson
Think
Characters
Some
Similarities
Guy
Sees
Clay
Part
Piece
Transform
Who
Each
Play
Desire
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