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Need Quotes by John Steinbeck
- People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
- The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be…
- Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
- Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was…
- I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all…
- If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
- He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.
- When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech…
- He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It…
- Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart…
- Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans
- The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
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- 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
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