"This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice."
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"But I don't want more things than I need, either."
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"I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it."
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"You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas."
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"Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us."
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"Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road."
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"For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!"
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"I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever."
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"I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and part of reinforcing trust is making sure that people feel accountability, and with accountability comes some degree of autonomy. You don't have one without the other."
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"You need the art in order to love the life."
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"Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change."
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"My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to."
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"I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!"
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"You need to be able to confide in people."
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"If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me."
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"Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop"
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"Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)"
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"Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us."
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