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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. Kurt Vonnegut

Alone, Here, About

Don't look at small business as a means to an end and a way to make money until the corporation hires you; look at it as a chance to create something of immeasurable value and beauty in a world that desperately needs it. Michael E. Gerber

Small, Needs, Means

An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part. Joe Kaeser

Mobility, Part, Increased

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing. Iris Apfel

Woman, Young, Why

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it. Fabrizio Moreira

Politics, Rock Star, Country

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. Claire Danes

Teen, Growing, Good Girl

Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited. Michelle Paver

Love, Exception, Deer

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all. Issey Miyake

Eyes, Bright, I Remember

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own. Denis Leary

Own, Need, One Thing

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. Demi Moore

Woman, Look, Prefer

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life. John Grant

About, Single Thing, Whole

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them. Tig Notaro

Enjoy, Precision, While

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. Bobby Scott

Example, Needed, Another

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. Anne Lamott

Love, Rebel, I Think

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too. Stephen A. Schwarzman

Doing, Parking, Before

I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing. Raquel Welch

Feel, Boyfriend, Aisle

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too. Janine di Giovanni

Good Mother, Suffocating

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Charlie Chaplin

Chance, Normal, Built

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. Christopher Buckley

Politics, Took, Reagan

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. Solomon Ortiz

Education, Need, Funding

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it. Daniel Radcliffe

Part, Unlikely, Identify

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. T. S. Eliot

Excellent, Lord, Deliver

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Ted Cruz

New, Needed, U.S. Senate

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. Charlie Sheen

Little Brother, Wanted, Mr

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me. Emma Watson

Concept, Fringe, Whole

My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it. Britt Robertson

Mom, Public School, Put

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