Quotes About Desire

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

As I got to about 9/10 years old I started to see roles on television that I wanted to play like a police officer in 'The Bill' or be a part of the 'Goodness Gracious Me Family' which I think further fuelled the desire to do this professionally.

Right after I had Anaiya, I definitely wanted more kids. I was like: 'I think I could do this professionally.' Because I loved being pregnant so much.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

I'm a Democrat in that I work towards progressive things, but I also am laser-like focused in my desire to actually get things done and not just talk about it.

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Bayern has always played a prominent role in my dreams.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.

You can't promise to win a game, but you can want to win a game.

People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.