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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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"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
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"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
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"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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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
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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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"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."
7
"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
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"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
6
"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."
6
"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
6
"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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"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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"You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done."
6
"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."
6
"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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"Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers."
5
"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?"
5
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
5
"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
5
"You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus."
5
"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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"Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting."
5
"A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up."
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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."
5
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
5
"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
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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."
4
"Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set."
4
"We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid."
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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
4
"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
4
"Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose."
4
"I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract."
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"Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs."
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"I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction."
4
"Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies."
4
"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."
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"I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met."
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