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Need Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect,…
- Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but…
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
- [T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
- American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do…
- the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…
- K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually…
- Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson