"I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life."
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"I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian."
"Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip."
"We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes."
"All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual."
"Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public."
"Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy."
"Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines."
"It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals."
"Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money."
"At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied."
"Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest."
"Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge."
"All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
"All them 5s need to listen when the 10 is talking"
"My team good, we don’t really need a mascot."
"I dislike both of [candidates] but there's obviously no choice in the election - if you're concerned about the future of anything, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton."
"I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it."
"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
"We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free."