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Need Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
- Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no…
- I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
- I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
- Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids…
- To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family…
- Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
- We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never…
- I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
- Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should…
- I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm…
- And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet,…
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the…
- I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
- And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to…
- She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to…
- What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate…
- I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
- It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products…
- What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way,…
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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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