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"When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams."
"Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!"
"Even the soldiers need a break sometimes."
"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."
"A child needs your love most when he deserves it least"
"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."
"We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology."
"Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer."
"Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs."
"We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love."
"If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us."
"Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need."
"K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget."
"We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done."
"La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage."
"Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally."
"Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you."
"You need to act your age and not your girl's age"
"[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear."
"I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime."
