"I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting."
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"Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods."
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"All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!"
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"You need emotional content."
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"Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen."
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"People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself."
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"Necessity is the mother of all invention."
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"If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others."
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"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation."
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"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."
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"People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it."
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"We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it."
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"I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person."
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"We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings."
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"The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery."
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"After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again."
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"We lay foundations that will need further development."
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"The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches."
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"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world."
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