Needed Quotes
3444 quotes by 2533 authors
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Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay…
— Alex Trebek
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four…
— Mark Haddon
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Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though…
— Portia de Rossi
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When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility…
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep…
— John Naisbitt
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If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of…
— Nikola Tesla
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the…
— bell hooks
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I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed…
— Chris Carter
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I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered…
— Pete Townshend
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me.…
— Barbara Park
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I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always…
— Wole Soyinka
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The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom…
— Troy Polamalu
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Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no…
— Bernie Siegel
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I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I found that my…
— Bob Harper
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For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that…
— Richard Attias
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