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Needs Quotes
"The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator."
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"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
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"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
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"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
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"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
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"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
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"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
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"There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair."
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"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."
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"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs."
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"There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do."
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"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."
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"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"
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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
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"After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party."
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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
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"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
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"It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source."
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"The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected."
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"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."
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"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."
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"Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set."
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"The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved."
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"You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done."
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"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
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"It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good."
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"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
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"I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term."
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"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all."
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"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."
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"That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated."
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"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
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"Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers."
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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."
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"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
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"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
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