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• A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Baby, Fall

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• I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.

  William H. Gass

  Hate, Philosophy, People

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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• The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

  George Carlin

  Smart, School, Careers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, School, Dysfunction

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

  Mario Bunge

  Social Values, Goal, Wish

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• "Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i.e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc.). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work.

  Dean Spade

  Xenophobia, Writing, Top Down

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Years, House, Cooking

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

  Rita Gelman

  Kids, Years, Upset

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• I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances.

  James Scott

  Character, Passion, Weekend

  "The James Scott Farewell Interview – Days of our Lives". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, Years

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• I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

  Sefi Atta

  Stories, Wanted

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

  Barry Commoner

  Country, Ghetto, Simple

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• Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

  Hiromi

  Art, Moving, Sleep

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• I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  New York, Editors, Diplomats

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.

  Jason Reeves

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.

  Jeff Fisher

  Desire, Size, Clients

  Source: justcreative.com

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• I was still very invested in the team, very invested in how we were doing. I realized I needed to take a step back and start focusing on myself, my head and my eye, try to get my health back.

  Chris Pronger

  Team, Eye, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

  George Deukmejian

  Long, People, Doe

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• When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Jobs, Years, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Home, Color, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Reading, Needs, Lasts

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Authority, Certain

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Persistence, Community, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.

  Chika Anadu

  School, Years, People

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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