Needed Quotes - Page 11

• A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

  Gish Jen

  Heart, White, Racism

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• My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

  Barbara

  Thinking, Long Ago, Abortion

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• I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

  Phil Robertson

  Intelligent, People, Guy

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• It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.

  Eve Ensler

  Book, Thinking, Expression

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2013.

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• I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Thinking, Issues, Media

  "An incredible container for transformation". Interview with Sheila Bapat, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

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• People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

  Michael Pollan

  Snacks, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Humble, Artist, Hands

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• I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.

  Jason Mraz

  Regret, Parent, Secret

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

  Sandy Smith

  Art, People, Goal

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• The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Distance, Car, Made

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

  Sherry Lansing

  Giving Up, Moving, Intelligent

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Hate, Healing

  "A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford". Book by Gerald R. Ford, 1979.

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• The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Events

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• Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Discovery, Years

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• The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Artist, Principles, Purpose

  Rudolf Arnheim (1954). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

  Kumi Naidoo

  People, Decision, Reform

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• I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

  Walt Disney

  Bad Day, My Own, My Own Life

  "Fictional character: Adult Simba". "The Lion King", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.

  Larry Burkett

  People, Support, Decision

  Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  Witold Walczak

  Historical, Records, Reporters

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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

  Robert Genn

  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

  Steve Jobs

  Song, Phones, Fiction

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• This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

  Steve Jobs

  Light, Tea, Typical

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• War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Men, Careers

  "Director Sebastian Junger Talks RESTREPO Follow-Up KORENGAL, Helping People Understand the Realistic Effects of War, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 14, 2014.

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