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Needs Quotes
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
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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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"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
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"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
"I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants."
"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."
"Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers."
"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."
"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
"Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set."
"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."
"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?"
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."
"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."
"Everybody needs feedback, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying a trainer."
"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."
"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."
"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."
"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."
"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
"It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good."
"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."
"Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to."
"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings."
"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
"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."
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved."
"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."
"An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties."
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