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There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.