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"If anybody ever needs to find me, I'm in the Glendale Whole Foods. I think it's the greatest Whole Foods on the planet. There are a bunch around the country, but this one seems like it has everything. Plus, everyone is super cool, the flow is fantastic, and it's in my hood."
"You don't need an invitation to your own life."
"Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love."
"In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary."
"The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war."
"The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be."
"The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive."
"I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road."
"Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists."
"Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it."
"You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production."
"What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay."
"There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!"
"Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel."
"Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back."
"The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them."
"Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again."
"Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men."
"We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest."
"Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality."
