#sire

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#desire #filmmaking #get #i #need

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #beautiful thing #desire #memory #miss

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#behavior #causes #desire #dominates #everyday

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #beyond #desire #expectations #history

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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