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• I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Decision, Political

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• There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

  Johnny Carson

  Apology, Ego, Finals

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

  David Platt

  Spiritual, People, World

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Peace, Lying, World

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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• God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Return, Creatures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Combination, Magnet, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Obedience, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

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• I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  Lauryn Hill

  Team, Exercise, Army

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from all the same things they did when they were kids. Which I guess is a natural tendency, but it makes for a less fun society.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Kids, Feelings

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Death Of A Loved One, Parent, Abuse

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

  Rob Bell

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

  John Cena

  Self, Laughing, Comedian

  "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.

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• I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Teacher, School

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• I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women. Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Psychics, Elements

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.

  Mario Andretti

  Experts, Aids, Drivers

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.

  Gary Busey

  Past, Giving, Growth

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Love, Christian, Please

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• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: content.time.com

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• God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

  Joyce Meyer

  Healing, Unconditional Love, Perfect

  Source: www.daystar.com

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• I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, School, Ideas

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Purpose, World

  Source: home.online.nl

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• In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Government, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I know they don't recommend Ibuprofen during pregnancy, but you needed something fast for the hangovers.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Hangover, Pregnancy

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