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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. Arianna Huffington

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I was thrilled when I heard about the Time's Up campaign's legal defense fund for women who've experienced harassment and sexism. I'd been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood. Connie Britton

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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. Eduard Shevardnadze

Day Longing One Day Disappear Pyramids Might Even Homeland Palestinians

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak

Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. Frank Black

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Gail Godwin

Will Longing Something More Always Than Intense Act

Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is how disconnected and purposeless I felt before Redfin or my earlier startup, Plumtree. All I ever wanted was to get into a situation where I could win. Everybody has that dream. Glenn Kelman

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Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad. Gore Verbinski

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Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? Greta Garbo

You Better Longing Something Reach Know Within Than Anything

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being? Guy Finley

Nature Waiting Longing Own Our Possibilities Purpose Self Discovering Same Being Where Place Fulfilling Explore Original Deepest Treasures

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. Hampton Sides

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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for. Ingmar Bergman

Longing Difficult Books Read Intend Want Many

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Ismail Merchant

Love Sadness Longing Melancholy Musicals Give Emphasis Well Always To Love

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing. James Gray

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I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that. Janet Varney

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Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only. Jenny Han

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You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. Jon Crosby

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