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“If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Children Guy Deals Pay Needed Basketball Shoes Dues Payment

Author:Larry Bird

“Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.”

Government Able United Cities Sea Needed Commitment Dues Oil London Kingdoms United Kingdom Westminster City Of London North Sea

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”

Faith Sides Doubt Needed Curves Second Chance Two Sides Antagonist Faith And Doubt

Book:The journey

Source: The journey

“There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.”

People Groups Needed Like Family

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.”

Men Needs Needed These Days Perfectionist

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.”

People World Want Real Government Nations Effects Awareness Movement Willing Needed Politician Roots Vote Green Grass Emissions Constituents Real Change Green Movement

Author:Wilbur Smith

“The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.”

Action Together Individual Planets Needed Creatures Spread Wide Our Planet Coming Together

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.”

Thinking Knows Way Light Father Saws Happened Worst Needed Worst Things Fallouts

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.”

Moving Winning Voice Party Week Middle Needed Lessons Vote Campaigns Command Ideology Tea Shakes Voters Isolated Mainstream Closing Romney November Tea Party

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”

Wanted Literature Needed Fame

Author:Danielle Steel

“I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.”

Way Mean Song Attitude Needed Stuck Stuck Up

Author:Gwen Stefani

“When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.”

People Sports Needed Revival Carelessness

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.”

Country Political Economic Needed Protect Trade Agreement Economic Systems

Author:David Suzuki

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.”

Fashion Needed Retail Undergarments

Author:Sara Blakely

“What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.”

Men Lasts Political Half Crime Needed Wit Clever Commit Resorts Clever Man

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.”

Feels Kids Needed Periods Feel Good

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.”

Helping Liberty Morning Needed Servant Pants Every Morning Screws Crooked Gonzo Journalism

Book:Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

“The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!”

Years Reason Pay College Fool Needed Senior Juniors Broadcasting Senior Year

Author:Alex Trebek

“I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.”

Thinking Years I Can Able Found Tvs Needed Computer Phones Distraction Disturbed

Author:Josh Turner

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.”

Way Force Dark Needed Very Deep Slumps Deep Dark Experiencing Things

Author:Shania Twain

“Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.”

Answers Needed Army Civilians Selective

Book:Half the Battle

Source: Half the Battle

“Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.”

Needs Two Ends Together Enjoy Hours Fantasy Team Needed Waste Wasting Time Weekend Nintendo Wii

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.”

Children Enough Given Parent Attention Needed Neglected

Author:Don Van Vliet

“At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.”

Years Care Mother Father Chance My Own Boys Childhood Son Needed Moved My Son Looking Back Better Life Similarity My Boys

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.”

Knows Giving Kind Mother Process Voice Type Needed Dues Trials Piano Nevertheless Personal Life Tribulation Therapeutic Trials And Tribulations

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.”

Belief Born Needed Okay Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Hitting Assured Happy Endings Born Again Kabbalah

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.”

Ifs Knows Said Running Lasts Moving Worst Needed Horse Last Time Worst Things

Author:Christopher Walken

“Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.”

Hard Enough Work Needed Coaches Power Trip

Author:Mark Warkentin

“This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Kind Ideas Helping Turns Source Needed Function Human Mind Stable Theoretical Way Of Thinking Harmonious Fertile Orderly

Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.”

Ifs Trying Believe Reason Political Purpose House I Believe White Serious Needed Republican Vote Democrat Congress White House Controlled Senate Reparations

Author:J. C. Watts

“Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.”

Problem Government Quality Needed Lows Program Overcoming Increase University Productivity Priorities Initiative Again And Again Unemployment Competitiveness Illiteracy

Book:Universities and the Future of America

Source: Universities and the Future of America

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

People Feels Trying Country Funny Interesting Numbers Land Military Human Nature Stupid Ignorance Needed Silly Dumb Indian White Supremacy Great Country Native American Indian

Author:John Wayne

“Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.”

Years Humans Body Would Be Human Beings Perfect Millions Needed Plant Complexes Beneficial Compounds Adapted

Author:Andrew Weil

“The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.”

Inspirational May Enough Seems Running Challenges Walks Brain Needed Increase Harder Productivity Combination Parks Software Percentages Annuals Walks In The Park

Author:Jack Welch

“I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.”

Way Inspirational Needs Trying School Song Jesus Teacher Needed Atheist Arguing Believer Features Converting Facial Facial Features

Author:Kanye West

“I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.”

Want Play Found Player Needed Guitar Bass Bass Players Bass Guitar Playing Bass Bassists

Author:Tina Weymouth

“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.”

Ifs Needs Dream Age Wanted Used Song Turns Records Needed Aging Studios Excited Producers Used To Be Birthday Digital Gaps Doing You Laptops Digital Age 50th Birthday Turn Me Dreaming And Doing

Author:Bono

“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”

Men Artist Quality Needed Respect Reverence Masterpiece

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”

Firsts Doe Sometimes Helping Feelings Interesting Five Needed Ten Jokes Rhythm Guts Seconds Very Interesting Few Words Gut Feelings Wording

Author:Steven Wright

“Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.”

Two Force Clear Streets Wall Needed Objectives Occupy Wall Street

Author:Elayne Boosler

“I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.”

People Littles Made Names Bits Money Amount Needed Little Bit Lists Shocked

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.”

People Talking Economic Development Needed Program Dollars Investing Various Billions Economic Development

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.”

Ifs Knows Play Past Games Winning Sports Team Needed Seasons Defense Cups Get Better Stanley Winning Team Stanley Cup Game Over

Author:Steve Yzerman

“Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.”

Children Tears Mom Needed Excited Noses Pockets Comforting Cotton Bakers Aprons Sanitary

Author:Regina Brett

“When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.”

Firsts Looks Helping Hands Needed Mets Husband My Husband Helping Hand Reins

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.”

Feels Writing Needed Skills Tools Teenager Digital Digital Tools

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.”

Writing Creative Expression Needed Routes Creative Expression

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

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