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Needs Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson
- Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
- I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where…
- The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give…
- I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling…
- We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the…
- If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,…
- Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
More Needs Quotes
- 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