"I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe."
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"The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation."
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"A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed."
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"Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods."
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"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not."
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"...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness."
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"I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it."
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"I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart."
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"In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in."
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"The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal."
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"Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love."
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"I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done."
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"Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience."
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"We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us."
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"Music and dance are all you need."
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"I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness."
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"Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership."
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"Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others."
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"When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product."
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"We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society."
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