#desi

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

— Eric Hoffer

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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

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. ↗

— Horace

#asked #common #desist #fault #friends

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#believe #desire #engaged #fundamentally #genuine

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contain #desires #examined #our #reveal

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#design #ever #gets #nothing #way

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

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