Needs Quotes - Page 18

• We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.

  June Jordan

  Black, Heritage, Superstar

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Giving, Important

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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• No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

  David Hilbert

  Men, Ideas, Spirit

  "Über das Unendliche" ["On the Infinite"] (1925) address to der Westfälischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft in honour to the memory of Karl Weierstrass, as quoted in "Number The Language of Science" by Tobias Dantzig, 1930.

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• There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Psychology, Training

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge

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• Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Looks, Today

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beach, Blackness

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Feels, Refuse

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.52, Penguin

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• Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Keys, Elements, Life Is Precious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

  Neal Stephenson

  Entertainment, Persons

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• I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

  Jim Ryun

  Finding The One, People, Abuse

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• There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

  Sebastian Coe

  Cities, May, Stones

  "Coe replaces Cassani in London bid", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2004.

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• We need to be confident. We need not to blink.

  Sebastian Coe

  Be Confident, Blink

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• Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

  Anne Enright

  Happened

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.88, Random House

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• I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

  Ernst Junger

  Believe, Men, Demand

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• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Punishment, Doe, Literature

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

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• Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

  William Penn

  Leaving, Benefits, Lasts

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• We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

  Pierre Boulez

  Irreverence, Spirit

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

  Patrick Ewing

  Athlete, People, Complaining

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• I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

  Phil Lesh

  Art, Children, Humble

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• Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Exhausted, Resources, Realms

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

  Andrew Weil

  Blood, Ideas, Balance

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