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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey

World, Stage, Us, Most

The people who are bullying you, they're insecure about who they are, and that's why they're bullying you. It never has to do with the person they're bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they're not alone. Madelaine Petsch

Alone, Bullying, People, Loved, You, Way

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

Good, Girl, Teen, Growing Up, Growing

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, Help, Priorities, Promises

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, Children, Age, Child, People, Wolf

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards. Randi Weingarten

Children, Caring, Teachers, Need, Teach

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things. Mark Rylance

Peace, Theatre, Survival, Fate, Place

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening. Ann Romney

Strong, Healthy, You, Everything, Used

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

Great, Care, Help, Need, Firefighters

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

Beautiful, Age, Woman, Moment, Look, Try

While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Society, Candid, Inequality, Racial, Why

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, People, Think, Care, You, Feel

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

Technology, Future, Energy, Efficiency

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

Heart, Man, Me, Intention, Wicked, Lord

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want. Celeste Ng

People, Purpose, Innocent, Doing, Want

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. Al Purdy

World, Unhappy, Trying, Adjust

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

Life, Fear, People, Think, Me, Process

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists. Deirdre O'Kane

Love, Motherhood, You, Person, Instinct

I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights! Ann Makosinski

Money, Experience, Need, Find, Soil, Out

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. Nina Easton

Life, Leadership, Success, Parents, You

People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work. Tarana Burke

Work, Hope, People, Need, Inspiration

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back. Robert J. Shiller

Power, Feel, Back, Accept, Class, Want

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't. Marcus Samuelsson

Mother, Father, Journey, Parents, Kids

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

Food, Reading, Hair, Friends, Enjoy, You

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. David Christian

Story, Universe, Know, Need, Why, How

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel. Kate O'Mara

Woman, Self-Respect, Finding, Try, Now

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