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"You need to feel that you're making a difference."
"Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity."
"There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality."
"A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change."
"We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace."
"One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted."
"I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still."
"You need to be distracted."
"I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]"
"An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment."
"Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute."
"I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room."
"There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation."
"Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around."
"Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working"
"Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him."
"We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go."
"In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything."
"If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck."