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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas
I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.
Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.
The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.
I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done.
Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices.
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.
You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.
Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.
We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.
A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.
There is no justifiable reason why our electricity, heating and cooling and transportation needs aren't powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.
I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.