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Growing up, I loved films like 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and became a huge fan of Marlon Brando.

~Fawad Khan

Topics: Became Brando Desire Fan Films Growing Growing Up Huge Huge Fan Like Loved Marlon Brando Named Up

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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

~Fay Weldon

Topics: Afflicts Desire Feel Getting Outside Outside World People Self-Expression Something Themselves Through Which World

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When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

~Faye Dunaway

Topics: Always Desire Discipline Energy Feeling Honesty Hunger Iron Luck Lucky Must Part Plays Someone Successful Sure Were You

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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Always Appetite Better Blood Depths Desire Emerges Hearts Honest Honesty Known Latent Men Neither Nor Rogues Springs Them Thirst Worse

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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Agreed Attachment Desire Emotional Experts Faith Friends Fulfill History Most People Priests Religion Spiritual Spoken The History Of Understanding Who

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There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

~Felicity Jones

Topics: Build Desire Doing Entertainment Entertainment Industry Hold Industry Months Much Naive Newness News Old Own Six Somebody Them Then Things Think Treat Try Up Way Within You Your I Think

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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

~Felix Adler

Topics: Desire Efforts Information Knowledge Law Legal Likely Obtain Order Over Own Point Ponder Seek Some Writers You Your

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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

~Felix Adler

Topics: Anxious Been Commercial Craving Desire Enrichment Fierce Gain Goods Human Human Life Interests Life Longer Madly Momentary Most Permanent Possession Precious Rare Sacrificed Taken Unrest World

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

~Fran Lebowitz

Topics: Adult Airport Area Between Consenting Department Desire Exchanges Freedom Freedom Of Speech Hotel Interest Little Me Only Parks Private Public Restaurants Speech Stores Streets Them Verbal

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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Adult Alert Desire How No Desire Ourselves Perceiving Red Species

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