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"We don't need to know what goes on beyond time. We need to know how to save this planet that we live on. To align our consciousness with the fundamental frequencies with which all have in common, and to generate love and energy between us."
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please."
"The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need."
"If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them."
"I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore."
"You dont need money, or plastic surgery to be a star"
"I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that."
"You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me."
"Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it."
"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
"Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?"
"The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality."
"The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need.""
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
"The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed."
"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources."
"Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs."
"Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time."
"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"
