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I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

~Cory Monteith

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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Topics: Desperate Gives Hope How Leader Matter Others Person Situation True Who

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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

~Dan Savage

Topics: Came City Cop Corpses Dad Depressing Desperate Gay He Him Homicide Met Mob Neighborhood Neighborhoods Only Out People Places Run Sad Were I Came

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My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: Big Big City City Dad Desperate Get Grew Ireland Know Like London Northern Northern Ireland Small Small Town Town Up Yearn

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I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.

~Daniel Tammet

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While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning.

~Daniela Bobadilla

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In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

~David Bailey

Topics: About Accepted Back Desperate Everyone Laid Laid Back Like London Money More New New York Success Things York

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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

~David Foster Wallace

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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility Kind Myself Often Other Please Reader See Think Writers Young Young Writers I Can

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Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

~David Frum

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