Needs Quotes - Page 431

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

There's a great frustration with the system. There's a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I've got enough problems in my own politics.

I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

In all of my fights, it is a learning experience. I would know afterwards what I need to improve on and what skills I need to maintain. This will make me a better fighter.

Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need.

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.

If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

What works for one persons needs is almost always very different from the next.