"The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement." — Don DeLillo

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• I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state… — Andre Breton
• Are we not all desperate one way or another? — Taylor Caldwell
• People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what… — George Carlin
• I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.… — Jim Carrey
• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my… — Charlie Chaplin
• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. — Kirstie Alley
• When I am not desperate, I am worthless. — Ivo Andric
• If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang… — Frank Zappa

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