“For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.” KnowsWayCharacterStoriesNeededOkayEmbraceStorytelling Author:Will Smith
“The Iraqis needed to know that we weren't going to leave them alone. No matter how difficult it was, the United States would help them realize the universal desire to be free. Now of course, if you didn't believe in the universality of freedom, then of course, you wouldn't act. I care how they live and I believe a free Iraq will be transformative.” IfsKnowsBelieveMatterStatesHelpingCareDesireCoursesI BelieveDifficultRealizingUnitedUnited StatesNeededUniversalIraqI CareUniversality Author:George W. Bush
“We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.” IfsMenWritingFirstsLooksBookSeemsWantedWrittenStyleNeededConform Author:Catherine Camus
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.” TryingChildrenLightRememberMotherFatherCollegeNeededArguingSaving MoneyMother And FatherBulbsLight Bulb Author:Denzel Washington
“The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsArtReasonMovingOrderInformationAmountNeededPeriodsNew WaysCavesPsychedelicEncyclopediaPsychedelic ExperienceNew Way Of Life Author:Howard Rheingold
“I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.” PeopleThinkingNeededAdultsRecognizingEldersSibling Author:Robert Bly
“I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.” WritingWantedFatherHalfAcceptingNeededAllowingAdulthoodOther HalfBasketsRenunciation Author:Robert Bly
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.” GivingTeachingNeededGiving UpDecidedGave Up Author:Vera Rubin
“I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.” WritingIdeasFormFeltMy OwnIndustryNeededPaidSellsScriptsFrankUniquenessWeirdnessCollateral Author:Allan Loeb
“Every actor has periods of their life that are a little less busy than others, and that was just a time when I needed that. And to be back on a sitcom stage, with Julia [ Louis-Dreyfus], was really, really fun.” LittlesActorsFunStageNeededPeriodsBusySitcomJulia Author:Eric McCormack
“There have been many times in my life where I got opportunities that I never thought would be the things that I needed, so I'm always saying, "I want to do this but whatever the universe thinks is right, I'm open." Because otherwise it causes me so much pain if I don't get what I want. It's my least favorite thing.” IfsThinkingWantHas BeensWould BePainUniverseOpportunityCausesNeededFavorites Things Author:Jen Kirkman
“After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.” MenKindYoungReadingNextSidesVoiceSawsPiecesNeededSpeechPaperSittingTablesBillsEastCoffeeFamiliarDrunkLoudTiesYoung ManShopsAssociationFree SpeechPieHebrewStunnedCoarseCoffee ShopEast SideUpper East Side Author:Nat Hentoff
“It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.” ChildrenFeltNeededUnderstoodRememberedOversight Author:Megan Chance
“What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.” StatesSocialGrowthTermDealsRiskModernNeededInnovationInvestmentRewardsMissionsCompactNew Deal Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds.” InterestStepsPathEconomicNeededSucceedRecoveryUrgesGreeceCreditorsEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.” ChildrenSaidSchoolParentNeededComputerFinancialLiteracyRespondingCurriculumFinancial Literacy Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.” LooksCharacterWantedIndividualNationsWonderNeededConnectionsSkinsMain Characters Author:Steven Knight
“Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsWellsHas BeensTwoHelpingAbleTaughtNeededSeasonsBallsExcellentTwo YearsInstructionPitchingOne On One Author:Graham Taylor
“I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.” ThinkingResultsNeededPercentDivisionFrankReally HappyUnderestimatedHeavyweights Author:Shawn Tompkins
“The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.” ThinkingSaidHelpingTodayJusticePowerfulRolesCrimeNeededMercyCriticsCriticalAnalysisProphetEtcHonorableThey SaidDissidentsGeopoliticalJustice And MercyNeeded Help Author:Noam Chomsky
“My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.” GivingLittlesCultureFatherBitsFiguresNeededElementsLittle BitWarm Author:John Edgar Wideman
“What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.” IfsGivingWantedInformationNeeded Author:Edward Snowden
“When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.” WantGivingWould BeWantedMovingClearNeededHusbandSingingGive MeMy HusbandUltimatum Author:Rene Marie
“I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.” PeopleWorldNeedsShowsDreamComedyThis WorldNeededMedicineComedy Shows Author:David Copperfield
“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsBodyRealitySexFeltPayAttentionFictionNeededDemandAspectIntentionGenderPrimariesUrgentUnrealTrans Author:Judith Butler
“In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.” SelfReasonAmericaPoliticalNeededDefinitionsObjectivesPrimariesGiantsPreservationBureaucracyPolitical SystemsSelf PreservationParalyzed Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.” BrokenNeededMaking ChangesRealisedTake Control Author:David Haye
“For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.” PeopleShouldAbleParticularNeededAreasCapacityRegardInvestingSizeInstanceTargetIncentivesTourism Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.” SportsRegretAmountNeededNo RegretsHave No Regrets Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“We are continuously looking at the question of increasing the capacity of Home Affairs and that is why Home Affairs introduced mobile units, to be able to reach people. The matter of the establishment of the Social Security Agency was to deal with the matter of the more efficient distribution of these grants, the reductions in the levels of corruption and greater sensitivity. You are dealing with vulnerable people, like the elderly, who you needed to find a way of addressing, so that people don't have to be waiting in the sun in the queue, and so on.” PeopleWayMatterHomeAbleSocialWaitingLevelsDealsSunGreaterSecurityNeededCapacityAffairCorruptionVulnerableAgencyGrantsEstablishmentEfficientUnitsSensitivitySocial SecurityDistributionMobileElderlyReductionQueues Author:Thabo Mbeki
“There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed.” PeopleGivingShouldGovernmentAsksProcessSupportNeededAbuseSouthSouth AfricaInterrogationDetention Author:Thabo Mbeki
“A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.” TelevisionNeededAccidentsMuseums Author:Paul Virilio
“By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.” FeelsSoulBodyHappensMorningWonderfulNeededLosingMiracleWake UpAddictionYour BodyYour SoulFallenLove LifeDrag80sLosing Myself Author:David Bowie
“We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.” ShareMonthsNeededBalanceAbsolutesDisappearObsessionPrivate LifeIman Author:David Bowie
“I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.” RememberAdviceNeededMy FriendsObviousLife ExperienceTalk To MeRabbiObvious Things Author:Jeff Ross
“Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoFactsWould BeLastsYoungPartySupportTrumpNeededRepublicanDifficultyDecadesCampaignsEducatedRepublican PartyMikeLatinoLike Mike Author:Mark Colvin
“Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.” LittlesStillsMightCasesGrowing UpGrowingNeededTablesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherPotatoesRiceExoticSpaghetti Author:Maya Angelou
“I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.” IfsFirstsBigsFilmNeededDirectors Author:John Hurt
“If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].” IfsRealArtistNeededSkillsCapacityReal LifeTherapistsPart TimeLife Skills Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingFirstsImportantHelpingFormSufferingNeededHappeningsWitnessNot Alone Author:Gloria Steinem
“[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.” ImportantHelpingTodayFocusNeededEssentials Author:Raoul Peck
“Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I've known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever do that was worth love from you and the kindness you've shown? Lord, help me, Jesus, I've wasted it so. Help me, Jesus. I know what I am. Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand.” KnowsSoulDoneHelpingHandsJesusKnownLordKindnessNeededBlessingDeserveMy SoulHelp MeWhy MeLord Help Me Author:Johnny Cash
“[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept this and accused him rightly of being obsessed with the English constitution.” OrderSocialAcceptingNeededConstitutionFellowsArguingObsessedSenateAccusedSocial Order Author:Gordon S. Wood
“The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.” PlayEasyNeededInstrumentsHeavyHardestBassPhysicality Author:Suzi Quatro
“As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.” PeopleMenKidsYoungOpportunityFeltWhiteSituationGrowing UpGrowingSeeingColorNeededLeavingFolksWitnessYoung ManStrifeHarlemKids Growing UpExodus Author:John Carlos
“I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.” WorldWayFeltMissingNeededWalkingAccountsDiedPeterBank Accounts Author:John Carlos
“Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantStatesNationsCan DoUnitedFivePositionNeededMembersOrganizationRefuseReformPermanentFrankSecretaryUnited NationsVeto Author:Bashar al-Assad
“My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.” DifferentFightingDecisionNeededInstitutionsResponseTerroristDialogueReformOfficialsSyriaAllegations Author:Bashar al-Assad