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Desperation Quotes
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation. (Quote by - Bob Saget)
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. (Quote by - Jim Carrey)
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. (Quote by - James Thurber)
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. (Quote by - John Money)
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. (Quote by - Tony Robbins)
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. (Quote by - James Stewart)
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. (Quote by - Robert Crumb)
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. (Quote by - Douglas Horton)
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. (Quote by - Lee Child)