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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Education
Me
Simple
Poverty
Think
Through
Had
Obvious
Sort
Up
Escape
Who
Many
Grow
Grow Up
Things
Desire
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
Character
Change
Conflict
People
Events
Drama
Way
Some
Combustion
Like
Sort
Makes
Surprised
Pat
Essence
Going
Just
Want
Which
Turn
Internal
Things
Desire
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Life
Best
Me
Live Life
Try
Live
Way
Best Way
Source
Taught
Lama
Unhappiness
Really
Avoid
Basic
Dalai
Dalai Lama
Desire
In schools, if you go to teach kids with less interest in music the nuances of music, they feel deviated, as it is very technical. But teaching them songs, to begin with, creates a natural desire in them to know the other country, their eating habits, the way they dress up, how they look, and other things.
Mohit Chauhan
Music
You
Natural
Country
Other
Way
Kids
Dress
Dress-Up
Eating
Habits
Songs
Feel
Know
Look
Schools
How
Go
Up
Very
Begin
Interest
Them
Creates
Teach
Teaching
Less
Technical
Nuances
Things
Desire
I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.
Mohsin Hamid
Past
No Desire
Write
Takes
Feel
In The Past
Place
Novel
Desire
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
Monica Johnson
God
Heart
Walk
Will
Mercy
Repentance
Spirit
Never
Sin
Particular
Come
Also
Because
Repeated
Committed
Against
Forth
Flesh
Desire
I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
Morley Safer
Would
No Desire
Put
Feet
Up
Why
Desire
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler
Love
Self-Satisfaction
Lust
Pleasure
Some
Rather
Only
Takes
Wrong
Another
Than
Form
Wants
Sensual
Desire
In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire.
Murray Rothbard
Man
Sunshine
Behavior
Achieve
Will
Nothing
Action
Must
Would
Individual
Attain
He
Institute
Like
Also
Him
Enable
Does
His
Expect
May
Ends
Order
Modes
Fulfill
Certain
Act
Sufficient
Desire
I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Politics
Suited
Enter
No Desire
Because
Am
Desire
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
You
Writing
Will
Complete
Definitely
Given
Reduce
Concrete
Intangible
Form
Plan
Your
Moment
Desire
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
Natalia Kills
Time
Long
Parents
Long Time
Lost
Situation
Resolved
Other
Everything
Never
Had
Ideal
Disastrous
Sort
Passionate
Up
Itself
Jail
Each
Dad
Grow
Grow Up
Desire
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
Nate Berkus
Mom
Me
Gay
Mother
Made
Grass
Sunlight
No Desire
Fabric
Direct
Rather
Had
Knew
Like
Know
House
She
Fairly
Bugs
Boy
Said
Samples
Interesting
Your
Baseball
Play
Play Baseball
Early
Playing
Desire
My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
Nathaniel Rateliff
Website
You
Man
Memory
Faster
Our
Project
Out
Run
Record
Also
Well
Falling
Loss
Than
Closer
Wheel
Original
Desire
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly
Life
God
Thoroughly
Insane
Asylum
Kindly
Properly
More
Had
Know
Most
Always
Were
Convinced
Helpless
Creatures
Cared
Desire
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
Nelsan Ellis
Education
School
Valued
Town
Coming
Came
Exist
Chicago
Any
Essentially
Moved
Arts
Where
Alabama
Desire
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.
Nelson A. Miles
Man
People
Immigration
Political
Party
Control
Wave
Our
Our People
Enterprise
Administration
Restrain
Civilization
Could
Check
Over
Tidal
Political Party
Stop
Land
Reasonable
Swept
March
Desire
You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.
Nick Clegg
Good
You
Others
Out
See
Some
Kingdom
Lead
Poland
Powerful
Countries
Make
Sure
Genuine
Got
Itself
Very
Whether
Straighten
Us
Sweden
Euro
Who
United
United Kingdom
Zone
Desire
Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.
Nick Kroll
Funny
You
Better
Word
Difficult
Prolific
Out
Constantly
General
More
Between
Stuff
Never-Ending
Like
Venues
Content
Makes
Get
Die
Places
Turning
Many
Desire
I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.
Nicola Sturgeon
No Desire
Absolutely
Got
Intention
England
Desire
Damaging
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
Nicole Krauss
Life
Music
You
Sense
Everything
Inside
Write
Part
Feel
Like
Most
Powers
Does
How
Surface
Quickly
Person
Sensations
Cut
Regrets
Suddenly
Away
Inner
Desire
Inner Life
Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.
Niecy Nash
Beautiful
Me
Marriage
Three
Healthy
Extreme
Also
Self-Doubt
Self-Esteem
Operating
Although
Empty
Left
Expecting
Children
Loved
Again
Dose
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Paid
Full
Desire
We played out on the street every single day as a family, with neighbours, at the community centres, and I developed the desire to win very early. That environment instilled a competitive edge in me, which has paid dividends in my life.
Nikita Parris
Life
Day
Family
Me
Win
My Life
Edge
Single
Community
Every
Neighbours
Out
Dividends
Developed
Environment
Instilled
Single Day
Very
Which
Paid
Street
Played
Early
Competitive
Desire
Every Single Day
A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.
Nina Easton
Politics
Grace
Conservative
Secular
National
Way
Moral
Driven
Vehicle
Since
Majority
Least
Fallen
America
National Politics
Formed
Rescue
Evangelicals
Jerry
Muscle
Desire
Christians
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron
Alone
Women
Regret
Single
Believe
Say
Immediately
Married
Followed
Primal
Almost
Equally
Get
Get Married
Which
Again
Urge
Basic
Desire
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Norman McLaren
Art
Previous
New
Like
Make
Any
Move
Movement
Film
Phase
Desire
Filmmaker
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