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A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
Robert Dallek
Hope
Great
Will
Seen
Shifting
Presidential
Some
Insincere
Purpose
Higher
Pursuit
Pragmatic
Candidate
Mean
Utterly
Desire
William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.
Robert Fisk
War
Me
Book
William
Silly
His
Appalled
Desire
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
Robert Foster Bennett
Success
Health
Mental Health
Own
Control
Our
Charge
Born
Mental
Take
Essential
Us
Each
Lives
Desire
Need
I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies.
Robert Lewandowski
Myself
Win
More
Trophies
Motivate
Desire
My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.
Robert Sean Leonard
People
Admired
Greatest
Sandbox
Kenneth
Desire
Kevin
I think I was born with that desire to win and attention to detail.
Roberto Firmino
Win
Think
Detail
Born
Attention
Desire
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'
Robin McLeavy
Time
Great
Background
Russia
Onstage
Stella
Named
Catherine
Read
After
Loved
Loved Ones
Theater
Script
Straight
Measure
Streetcar
Played
Playing
Desire
I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.
Robin Wright
Me
Met
Out
No Desire
Through
Absolutely
Had
Because
Audition
Go
Encouraged
Modeling
Sitcoms
Agency
Agent
Who
Petrified
Desire
I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.
Roddy Piper
Emotions
Winner
Never
Desire
I went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir. But for all that the church gave me - for all that it represented belonging, love and community - it also shut its doors to me as a gay person. That experience left me with the lifelong desire to explore the power of religion to transform lives or destroy them.
Roger Ross Williams
Love
Religion
Me
Gay
Experience
Church
Sunday
Power
Doors
Community
Every
Every Sunday
Gave
Destroy
Lifelong
Also
Left
Person
Transform
Them
Choir
Explore
Sang
Lives
Shut
Belonging
Desire
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Roger Waters
You
Natural
Think
Records
Write
Songs
Like
Make
Want
Either
Desire
It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.
Romesh Gunesekera
Me
Technology
World
Dangerous
Remember
Safety
Live
Everything
Seek
About
Seems
Something
Troubling
Over
Times
Forget
Fiction
Desire
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Romola Garai
You
Experience
Emotions
Believe
Unless
Way
Just
Being
Public
Capable
Your
Actor
Desire
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
Ron Fournier
History
Political
President
Leaders
Reach
Beyond
Particularly
Political Leaders
Very
Expectations
American
Hollywood
Appealing
Washington
Desire
Raising
I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
Ron Silver
Age
Stage
No Desire
Had
Early
Desire
Early Age
I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.
Rudolfo Anaya
No Desire
New
Leave
New Mexico
Mexico
Places
Many
Traveled
Desire
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Russell M. Nelson
Spiritual
Natural
Decision
Will
Preparation
Destiny
Worthiness
Outcome
Posterity
Shape
Generations
Come
Mission
Missionary
Spouse
His
Conversion
Serve
Her
Desire
I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.
Rutger Hauer
Myself
Me
Heart
Fight
Coward
Smell
Out
Run
No Desire
Except
Am
Anybody
Swear
Aggression
Violence
Desire
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
Ryan White
Life
Daily
Reality
School
My Life
White
Community
Living
AIDS
Possible
Dream
About
House
Became
Accepted
Move
Movie
Bigger
Story
Avoid
Desire
When I joined the SEALs, no one knew what a SEAL was. What intrigued me was the level of commitment, the love of country and desire to be the best in the world at your vocation. Watching American exceptionalism in action.
Ryan Zinke
Love
Best
Me
Commitment
World
Country
Action
Intrigued
Vocation
Joined
No-One
Knew
American
Your
Seal
Seals
Level
Watching
Desire
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie
Conflict
Fear
Fall
Between
Falling
Vertigo
Desire
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
Alone
Photography
Stay
Seems
Very
Arts
Moment
Serve
Humans
Desire
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
Sam Neill
Before
No Desire
Only
Retire
Retirement
Limited
Get
Done
Certainly
Conscious
Amount
Desire
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
Sam Shepard
Sense
Think
Way
Out
Some
Absolutely
Writer
Writers
Disappear
Most
Anonymous
Desire
Need
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
Samina Baig
Women
Our
Out
Spirit
Adventure
Come
Most
Cherished
Infuse
Them
Help
Chores
Routine
Desire
It is unfair to constantly allege that Manmohan Singh's only unfulfilled desire is to visit his birthplace in Pakistan and that his Pakistan policy is defined by this obsession.
Sanjaya Baru
Unfair
Birthplace
Defined
Visit
Constantly
Only
Obsession
Policy
His
Unfulfilled
Pakistan
Desire
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