"I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud."
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"The third-date rule [that you need to have sex by the third date] treats sex like it's the down payment on a relationship."
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"So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break."
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"All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me."
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"When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets."
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"Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for"
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"If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed"
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"To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved."
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"Cause even grown men need understanding."
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"Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom."
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"We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future."
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"Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational."
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"Life responds to deserve and not to need."
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"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."
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"We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage."
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"If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve."
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"My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help."
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"Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No."
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"Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions."
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"I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to."
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