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"I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'."
"I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable."
"I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes."
"No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs."
"[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions."
"We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it."
"He who believes needs no explanation."
"We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe."
"To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room."
"It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time."
"I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry."
"You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it."
"If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost."
"Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die."
"If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream."
"Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs."
"You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.""
"What you need and what you want aren't the same things."
"Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession."
"Material things aside, we need not advice but approval."
