What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin
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I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.
Maynard Webb
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Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Nick Rahall
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon
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I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Diane Lane
WorldDesireProveAlwaysSomething
'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
Charles Bock
DeathMeGrowing UpArtistDesire
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
John Osborne
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Remy de Gourmont
LiveArtDesireEverything
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I want to inspire people to do whatever they desire in life.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
LifePeopleInspireDesireWant
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
Billy Corgan
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We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
John Mahoney
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I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
Marilyn Monroe
SportsMenSwimmingGolfDesire
How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
Victor Ponta
ActionEnthusiasmSecurityDesire
There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.
Dorothea Dix
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Bernie Siegel
PowerWordsSurviveDesireAbility
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
John Hodgman
GreatCelebrateThoughtDesireWell
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
KnowledgeMindSeeingDesireSeeUs
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
Samuel Barber
MyselfFindI CanDesirePossible
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
BeginningDesirePlot
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
Alexander the Great
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
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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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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
JusticeDesirePassionateDriven
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