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My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.
Jake Johnson
Wife
Girl
Think
Guys
Drink
Effect
Any
Desire
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
First
Took
Complete
Jobs
Direct
Only
Taking
Because
Were
Really
Acting
Lessons
Whole
Thing
Desire
I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.
James Gleick
Life
Believe
Faster
Consequences
Speed
Our
About
Instant
Know
Look
Looked
Effect
Trying
Modern
Going
Modern Life
Mean
Us
Many
Why
Things
Pudding
Desire
One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
James Murphy
Me
Big
Become
Band
Broke
No Desire
Had
Clearer
Over
Years
Up
Famous
Big Things
Which
Much
Things
Desire
I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.
James Patterson
Love
Game
People
Money
Made
Universe
Guess
Those
Has-Been
No Desire
Open
Had
Idea
Genre
Sort
Because
Limited
Were
Been
Up
Expanding
Just
So Much Money
Much
Successful
Creating
Games
Who
Desire
You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.
James Salter
You
Book
Energy
Write
Make
Brains
Your
Desire
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
James Surowiecki
Synergy
Seems
Arise
Beyond
Most
Call
Hear
Expand
Siren
Often
Businesses
Companies
Reinvention
Start
Desire
Core
I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
James Turrell
Work
You
Experience
Light
Space
Situation
See
Physically
Take
Feel
Like
Becomes
Up
Which
Inhabiting
Your
Presence
Desire
Set
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
James Welch
Me
Language
Become
Imagination
Gave
Montana
Way
Bit
About
Could
Write
Writer
He
Also
Permission
Hugo
Northern
Taught
Anyone
Richard
Ear
Desire
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
James Weldon Johnson
Ambition
Own
Musical
Must
Hopes
Classic
Voice
Unselfish
Joys
Also
Sorrows
Felt
Stirred
American
Form
Desire
We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
Jamie Dimon
Change
World
Voting
Political
President
States
Citizens
Economic
Through
Period
Around
Trump
American
Donald
Donald Trump
Going
American Citizens
Elect
Deep
Deep Desire
United
United States
Profound
Desire
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
Inspirational
History
Election
Down
Obama
Find
See
Networking
Around
Built
Overly
Celebration
American
American History
While
Barack
Barack Obama
Personally
Special
Moment
Appeal
Even
Desire
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it's an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation.
Jamie Johnson
People
Way
Insecurities
Pretty
Unspoken
Over
New
Along
Well
Another
Vulnerabilities
Limitation
Go
Contract
Linked
Person
Manage
York
New York
Being
Convention
Prefer
Choice
Certain
Even
Desire
I've got no desire to be famous myself.
Jane Fallon
Myself
No Desire
Got
Famous
Desire
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Jane McGonigal
Success
Hope
Immediately
Tackle
Combined
Obstacle
Optimism
Urgent
Act
Reasonable
Belief
Desire
My desire is to walk with God every day.
Janine Turner
God
Day
Every Day
Walk
Every
Desire
My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Janine Turner
Ego
Direction
Go
His
Let Go
Desire
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Jasper Johns
Good
You
Everything
Give
Up
Artist
Including
Desire
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
Jay Baruchel
Good
Sports
Conflict
Worth
Listening
Reading
Think
Drama
Worth Reading
Because
Makes
Heartbreak
Same
Anything
Ingredients
Good Drama
Watching
Desire
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge
Philosopher
Pleasure
Take
His
Heard
Ceases
Being
Desire
Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.
Jean Chatzky
Grateful
Culture
Be Grateful
Our
More
Highlights
Always
Should
Even
Desire
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
Jeff Buckley
Me
Kiss
Consolation
Out
Desire
You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on it. The life you truly want to live does.
Jen Sincero
Life
You
Depend
Live
Guess
Must
Like
Because
Does
Go
Truly
Depends
Want
After
Your
Things
Desire
A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.
Jen Sincero
Life
Wealth
Healthy
Greed
Desire
I have no desire to sell Rent the Runway. I have a 50-year vision for Rent the Runway, at least, to change consumer behavior and actually put the closet in the cloud.
Jennifer Hyman
Change
Vision
Behavior
Cloud
No Desire
Runway
Consumer
Put
Rent
Least
Sell
Closet
Actually
Desire
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Jenny Shipley
Change
Peace
Women
Too
Medium
Secure
Secure Peace
Has-Been
Must
Structures
Attempt
Term
Stewardship
Arrangements
Been
Male
Dominated
Often
Short
Informal
Which
While
Decision-Making
Used
Mechanisms
Expressed
Desire
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