"I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one."
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"I don't need to publish to make a living."
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"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."
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"Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental."
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"So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.” “He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes. “Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you!"
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"There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-"
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"Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper."
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"If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask."
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"Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry"
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"Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother."
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"The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole."
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"Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk."
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"By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need."
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"I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing."
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"I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do."
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"When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula.""
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"France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers."
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"A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling."
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"Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence."
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"Nothing really matters; love is all we need."
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