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"Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically."
"I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not."
"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
"She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things."
"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
"I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft."
"Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion."
"A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself."
"The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware."
"The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers."
"No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses."
"I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."
"The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you."
"Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business."
"The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there."
"To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold."
"I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face."
"When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?"
"I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'"
"My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven."
