"I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread."
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"We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live."
"I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'."
"If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain."
"A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army."
"Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody."
"You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world."
"Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see."
"I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself."
"It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love."
"I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change."
"In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot."
"I need to remember to overcome."
"Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest."
"People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right."
"We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others."
"For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained."
"If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more."
"I train for the first shot – it’s all I need."
"Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it."