"Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!"
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"I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot."
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"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."
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"You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
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"I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord."
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"To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!"
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"IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity."
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"The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people."
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"I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity."
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"Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can."
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"No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience."
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"If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after."
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"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
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"I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation."
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"The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive."
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"The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most."
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"The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness."
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"We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."
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"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times."
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