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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
Time
End Of The World
Hopeless
Inspiration
Live Life
Middle Aged
Youth
Adventures
Episode
Survives
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I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.
Marie Lu / Author
Glad
Hopeless
Outlining
Poor
Worry
Myself I Am Me
Agent
Myself Me I Am
Drafts
Editor
Except
Later
Occur
Sees
Throw
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I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.
Robert Anton Wilson / Author
Hopeless
Labels
Meditation
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We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.
Bruce Cockburn / Guitarist
Hopeless
Confronted
Spade
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Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.
Bob Hawke / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Hopeless
President
Tragedy
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We've been given the full spectrum of emotions for good reason, and it helps us be happy, in my opinion. I think it's totally normal to be sad or angry or frustrated, hopeless at moments. I don't think we would've been given these things if they were bad.
Noah Centineo /
Sad
Angry
Frustrated
Hopeless
Moments
Normal
Opinion
Spectrum
Totally
Be Happy
Emotions
Good Reason
Helps
In My Opinion
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I was really embarrassed. And I asked why they took my picture when I was in such agony, and I'm the girl, in the moment that I was naked, burning, hopeless, crying - so ugly. And I asked why they took my picture at that that moment? I didn't like it at all.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc /
Agony
Burning
Embarrassed
Hopeless
Naked
Crying
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Romantic
Complicated
Different
Fairytale
Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Straightforward
Life Love Believe
Very
Life Love Romantic
Find
Different Places
Discovered
Far
Grown
Places
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
Duncan Jones / Film Director
Broke
Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Bachelor
Followed
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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
William Morris Hunt / Artist
Despair
Hopeless
Paint
Simple
Thinking
Wonder
Portrait
Timid
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My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
Alexander Mccall Smith / Writer
Great Success
Hopeless
Orchestra
Elizabeth
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And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.
Amy Tan / Film Writer
Hopeless
Stills
Trying
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By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.
Glenn Beck / Radio Host
Chef
Friendless
Hopeless
Kitchen
Mean
Suicidal
Time Family Work
By The Time
Work Family Time
Family Work Time
Someplace
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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Age
Children
Hopeless
Hours
Income
People
Television
Aspirations
Associations
Declined
Option
Flooded
Maintain
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Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
Lawrence Weschler /
Conservatory
Department
Hopeless
Vienna
Background
Life Music Famous
Genetically
Tons
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To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
Ben Dolnick /
Agonizing
Hopeless
Chapter
Proved
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Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
Tom Reiss / Author
Age
Blindness
Consumption
Doctors
Headache
Heart
Hopeless
Insanity
Labor
Old Age
Pills
Situation
Sugar
Nearly
Meant
French
Without
Old
Pains
Prescribed
Problems
Utterly
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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
Adam Mansbach /
Expensive
Funk
Hopeless
Jazz
Labels
Obscure
Time Travel
Cool Time Great
Rare
Fantasies
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I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
Hugo Weaving / Film Actor
Hopeless
Our Lives
Painful
Self
Thinking
Today
Quite
Confident
Period
Sustained
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Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!
Rhonda Byrne / Writer
Hands
Hopeless
Matter
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Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.
Auguste Escoffier / Chef
Work
Cooking
Done
Easy
Hopeless
Mediocre
Remains
Work Good Done
Nothing
Anything
Quite
Approaching
Bad
French
Without
Expect
Hand
Least
Merely
Other
Result
Satisfactory
Stock
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When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.
Angela Featherstone /
Hopeless
If I Could
Adopt
Worker
Foster
Homes
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Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
Philip Pullman / Film Writer
Believe
Hopeless
Passionate
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To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that 'everything goes wrong' kind of thing.
George Gaynes /
Covered
Generous
Hopeless
Work Character Man
Required
Wrong Kind
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It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe / Architect
Artistic
Endeavor
Hopeless
Our Time
Architectural
Time Work Age
Builders
Earlier
Work Time Age
Repeatedly
Usable
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As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Beautiful Country
Confused
Disappointed
Hopeless
Peace Of Mind
Population
Quality Of Life
Surviving
Barely
Restore
Suffers
Wondering
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I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.
Thomas Mcguane / Author
Early Life
Hopeless
Unsympathetic
Life Time Family
Brother And Sister
Failed
Life Family Time
Tough Time
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler /
Sports
Awkward
Class
Comfortable
Grades
Hopeless
Only Child
Quiet
Shy
Size
Spite
Adult
Earliest
Short
Rest
Other Kids
Taller
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
Samuel Barber / Composer
Courage
Certain
Hopeless
Matter
Said
Feel
Back
Been
Doing
Year
Case
Composers
Deal
Say
Fact
Great Deal
Must
Holding
In Fact
Takes
They Say
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
Shirley Chisholm / American Politician
Black
Country
Despite
Hopeless
Jew
Next
Next Time
Odds
Presidency
Ran
Ready
Refusal
Sheer
Status Quo
Taken
Accept
Time Start Believe
Anyone
Woman
Demonstrate
Elect
Group
He Or She
Quo
Runs
Seriously
She
Start
Status
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It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.
Charles Albert Gobat /
Optimistic
Constant
Endeavor
Hopeless
Logic
Mankind
Pessimism
Plunge
Tomorrow
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Utopia
Conceived
Fresh
Laugh
Regards
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Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.
Lupe Fiasco / Rapper
Chicago
Dying
Hopeless
Interviews
Losing
Meaningful
Men And Women
Scream
Streets
Men Women Music
Women Men Music
Young Men
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
Samuel Adams / Founding Father Of The United States
Confidence
Ark
Despondency
Destroyed
Dignity
Hopeless
Liberty
Prospects
Safety
Support
Visible
Yield
Becomes
Cause
Contest
Longer
Nor
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The Islamic State does not want us to open our doors to their refugees. It wants them to be hopeless and desperate. It does not want us to enjoy ourselves with our families and friends in bars and concert halls, stadiums and restaurants. It wants us to huddle in our houses, within our own social groups, and close our doors in fear.
Deeyah Khan /
Bars
Desperate
Doors
Groups
Halls
Hopeless
Islamic
Restaurants
Stadiums
Close
Concert
Houses
Refugees
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For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.
Richard Engel / Journalist
Camps
Criminals
Crowded
Disenfranchised
Generations
Hopeless
Lebanese
Palestinian
Slums
Go Home
Refugees
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All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.
Artie Lange / Actor
Bottom
Helpless
Hopeless
Mountain
Barred
Below
Holds
Low
Motionless
Slip
Valley
Yours
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I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.
Michael Ignatieff / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Arrogant
Enormous
Hopeless
Incapable
Skills
Slaughter
Communicative
Senator
Drives
Intellectuals
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I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.
Christoffel Wiese /
Positive
Amazing
Awakening
Dark
Hopeless
Huge
Investment
Population
Resources
Today
Wonderful
Young
Africa
Almost
Billion
Invest
Extremely
Place
Market
Neither
Wonderful People
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My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the hopeless, and the downtrodden. There is no one more hopeless and voiceless than an unborn baby, but their silence is deafening. I can't hear them. Where are they standing up for their communities, advocating and fighting for their right to life?
Sean Duffy / U.s. Representative
Advocating
Caucus
Hopeless
Silence
Unborn
Voiceless
Communities
Congressional
Liberal
Standing Up
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