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“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.”

Needs Firsts Night Bits Training Colour Canvas

Author:Ron Moody

“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.”

Ifs Needs Feels Firsts Persons Political Laughing Happened

Author:Kathy Najimy

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.”

People Needs Firsts Would Be Choices Enjoy Support British Welcome Greek Greece Friend In Need

Author:George Papandreou

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Helping Feelings Would Be Sports Politician If I Could Fulfilling Scotland

Author:Gordon Strachan

“Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Would Be Republican Approach Immigration Borders Tone Controlled Insulting

Author:Jeb Bush

“In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.”

People Men Needs Firsts America Taken Europe Increase Selfish Atmosphere Dependency Personal Power

Author:Pope Francis

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

Needs Firsts Humans Soul Hard Body Can Do Space Perfect Prove Computer Machines Unlimited Silicon Physical Body Simulation Disk

Author:Frank J. Tipler

“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.”

Needs Writing Firsts Shows Worry Television Tvs Internet Online Tv Shows Seventies Eighty Website Blockbuster

Author:Al Franken

“The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.”

Needs Firsts Running President Millions Dollars Budgets Million Dollars

Author:S. Robson Walton

“What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?”

Needs Firsts Doe Century Personality Machines Twenties Layers Tolerate Bullshit Mechanic

Book:The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

Source: The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.”

People Want Needs Firsts Careers Audience Rocks Originals Folks Track Genre Abandon Sixty Muse Beaten Listening To Music

Author:Dar Williams

“What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!”

Knows Needs Firsts Reason Jesus Strong Christ Church Lord Principles Members Jesus Christ Wave Protection Temptation Reason Why Crash Testimony Immorality Lord Jesus Christ Tsunami

Author:John Bytheway

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.”

Needs Firsts Belief Chance Sensible Agnosticism Arriving

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.”

Needs Firsts Art Community Privilege Burden Privacy Constructs Family Love

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”

Needs Years Firsts Has Beens Today Winning Process President Years Ago Vote Twenties Iraq Saddam Hussein Twenty One Popular Vote Electoral Process

Author:Jay Leno

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Done Order Need A Change

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.”

Thinking Needs Mind Firsts Perception Hospitals Nests Flew Need A Change Cuckoos Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Deborah Norville

“I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Past Half Decades Investors Caution Over The Past Dip

Author:Liz Miller

“A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.”

Love Needs Writing Firsts Stuff Powerful Study Nice Sight Notes Lists Most Powerful Love At First Sight

Author:Robert Genn

“I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.”

Needs Mind Firsts House Dying Right Now Clean Cleaning

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.”

Needs Mind Firsts Together Women Enlightenment First Time Climbs Fellowship Bans

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.”

People Ifs Needs Firsts Reason Helping Motivational Running Remember Lines Leader Vision Crosses Connected Pace Finish Line

Author:John C. Maxwell

“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.”

Ifs Way Needs Trying Firsts Children Play Goal Teaching Achieve Design Discipline Curiosity Good Times Controlled Unpredictable Relaxed Conditioning Boundless Individualistic

Author:Roger Fouts

“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”

Needs Firsts Quality Quantity

Author:Alan Chadwick

“People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.”

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