"When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced."
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"Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?"
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"In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about."
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"If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it."
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"No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy."
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"You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph."
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"Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass."
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"He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure."
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"The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man."
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"When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation."
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"But a man needs company."
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"The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers."
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"At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places."
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"Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated."
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"Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us."
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"Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough."
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"Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over."
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"I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need"
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"The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?"
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"When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really."
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