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"I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down."
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
"My ego only needs a good rhythm section"
"I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need."
"It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air."
"we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore."
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
"There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more."
"What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be."
"When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously."
"You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none."
"I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
"I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
"I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost."
"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
"We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them."
"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?"
"Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself."
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well."
"Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness."
