Needs Quotes - Page 25

• The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

  Julian Cope

  Believe, People, Intellectual

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• Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Night, Guitar

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• Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

  Jakob Dylan

  Music, Able, Seems

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• Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

  George Saunders

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". George Saunders' Speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway... I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.

  Brian Regan

  Mean, Thinking, Phones

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

  Tory Burch

  Believe, Entrepreneur, Challenges

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• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

  James Frey

  Regret, Grief, Sadness

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

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• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Killers

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• A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

  Helen Vendler

  Transformation, Rhythm, Wells

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• Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Understanding, Looks, Way

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

  Roald Dahl

  Clever, Kids, Stories

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

  Roald Dahl

  Daze, Want, Drink

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.

  Raul Grijalva

  Home, Iraq, People

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• I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

  Coleman Barks

  Cages

  "Love’s Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 16, 1995.

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• But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know
  where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going
  to play properly, I should need some really good people.

  Syd Barrett

  Mean, Play, Ideas

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• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Jenny Shipley

  Structure, Aspect, Integrated

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• For those who are understood no need to explain

  Ryan Lochte

  Understood

  Twitter post from May 26, 2012

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• The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Government, Iraq, Feet

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• European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.

  Romano Prodi

  Government, Expression, Decision

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Things In Life, Enough

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• You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Enough

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• Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

  Howard Gardner

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Howard Gardner (1999). “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century”, p.181, Basic Books

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• But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

  Howard Gardner

  Thinking, Hands, People

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