#desire

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! ↗

— Lea Thompson

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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. ↗

— Noah Webster

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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