"In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion."
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"I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need."
"I don't need my name anywhere."
"I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction."
"I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed."
"We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets."
"The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy."
"I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design."
"To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state."
"Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality."
"Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services."
"There's always someone out there telling you your nose is too big or too small, or you're too fat or too thin, or they don't like your hair. In life, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like something about you, so you have to focus on what makes you happy about yourself. You're the only person you need to please."
"You should never need a guy to make you feel complete."
"I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need."
"I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live."
"Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now."
"I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him."
"It is war now, and armies need symbols."
"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."
"I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike..."