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“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.”

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Author:W. C. Fields

“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.”

“Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.”

“The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.”

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“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”

“Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.”

World Needs Clear Amount Quiet Mindfulness Accomplish Enormous Being The Best Willingness Crap Expertise Trust Yourself

Author:Danny Gregory

“When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.”

Needs Looks Facts Week Serious Amount Solutions Spending Ridiculous Addresses Senate Deficit Proposal February Deficit Spending

Author:Kristi Noem

“There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.”

People Needs Actors Amount

Author:Madeleine Stowe

“I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.”

Needs Able Realizing Buddhism Amount Mystical Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Seems Might Certain Amount Intelligent Towns Rate Rounds Small Changes

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In this life you had time only for a certain amount of thinking, and there was no need to waste any of it on people who were not threatening.”

People Thinking Needs Certain Worry Stupid Figures Amount Waste This Life Threatening

Book:A Garden of Earthly Delights

Source: A Garden of Earthly Delights

“Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.”

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Author:Edna Buchanan

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

Ifs World Needs Should Persons Certain Creative Amount Creating Criticism Criticize Shut Up Creating Something Creative Writers

Author:Gena Rowlands

“Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.”

“There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Wells Amount Giving Up Raises Prepared Meat Diets Vegetarian Vegan Diminish Need A Change Vegan Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.”

Way Needs Feels Humans Looks Mean Doe Certain Sex Natural Amount Caring Superficial Exploits Sexiness

Author:Kathy Sierra

“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”

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Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.”

Needs Artist Certain Amount Confusion Turmoil

Book:Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

Source: Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

“God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.”

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Author:Robert Mankoff

“A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.”

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Author:Kevin Nash

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.”

People Ifs Needs Use Kids Used Decision Economic Car Building Amount Behavior Gas Vehicle Irresponsible Hybrid Gasoline Suvs Horsepower

Author:William J. Clinton

“I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.”

Thinking Needs Long Shows Film Passion Energy Crazy Subjects Amount Projects Cameras Cooking Filmmaker Interviews Online Love Making Cooking Shows

Author:Tamra Davis

“You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.”

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Book:Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”

Ifs Needs Children Would Be Three Water Growing Amount Fairs Treats Profit Sunlight Sibling Identical Cactus Pruning

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.”

“Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.”

People Needs Jobs America Economy Century Amount Higher Skills Limits Access Budgets Regulation 21st Century Obamacare Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.”

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Author:Bill Nye

“People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.”

People Needs School Deals Millions Plans Taught Amount Dollars Investment Billions Tiny Daily Life Small Amounts

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.”

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Author:Carlo Grante

“China's productive system draws upon the other East Asian countries to a great extent. The volume of trade is much larger than the net amount being exported from China. China needs substantial reserves to finance all that.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.”

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Author:Anne Sewitsky

“We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Long Country Reason Enough Certain Struggle Economy Pride Amount Our Country Conquer No Reason Modesty Conquer The World National Pride

Author:Ratan Tata

“I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.”

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Author:Sean Faris

“Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.”

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Author:Colin Farrell

“Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.”

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Author:Paul Kane

“With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.”

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Author:Joan Cusack