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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #different #every #intense #intense desire

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #intense #intense desire #only #opportunities

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#designer #girlfriend #theater

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#day #depends #desire #fame #going

But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#designers #famous #minute #models #move

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

#decision #deep #desire #film #how

The gratification of desire is not happiness. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#gratification #happiness

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#design

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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