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“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.”

Author:Jodie Foster

“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

People Needs Should Writing Believe Looks Play Character Would Be Able I Believe Social Challenges Lines Views Class Crosses Males Gender Point Of View Good Writers Social Class Chameleon

Author:Marisha Pessl

“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

“If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.”

Ifs Needs Whole Problem Happens Would Be Fine Prejudice Kicks Zone Cooperation Spain Greece Convenient Euro Simplification Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.”

Needs Use Problem Would Be Struggle Dollars Be You Incentives

Author:John Poindexter

“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

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.”

Ifs Needs Giving Would Be Creativity Sells Labels Being The Best Scenarios Standpoint

Author:Matthew Sweet

“Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.”

People Ifs Needs Sometimes Government Would Be Parent Kicks Pants Perpetual

Author:Cal Thomas

“I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.”

World Want Needs Children Would Be Messages Weapons Mass Destruction Our Children Everyday Grandchildren Bully Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Children And Grandchildren

Author:George Voinovich

“Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Enough Would Be Earth Courses Space Mines Overcoming Shoes Surface Buddhist Should I Unlimited Foe Covering Leather Unruly

Author:Shantideva

“If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Self Would Be Pleasure Quality Dose Quality Time

Author:Lydia Lunch

“We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.”

Needs Would Be Issues Conversation Climate Climate Change Uncomfortable Irresponsible

Author:Al Franken

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.”

Ifs Needs Giving Would Be Definitions Definition Of Happiness

Book:The Dinner

Source: The Dinner

“A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself. . . . On whom you can depend whether present or absent. . . . With whom you never need pretend. . . . To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal. . . . Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend. . . . Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND. . . AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!”

Needs Feels Persons Doe Use Would Be Depends Betrayal Sincere Absent

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.”

Men Needs Heart Two Enough Happens Would Be Eye Felt Water Arms Safe Summer Bird Breaths Embrace Expected Endless Grass Necks Lazy Sunlight Her Eyes Insects Fragrance Enough Time Buzz Two Hearts

Author:Maggie Osborne

“If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.”

Ifs Needs Reason Shows Would Be Effort Anger Merciful Iniquity

Author:Martin Luther

“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”

Thinking Needs Would Be Language Impossible Abstract Anticipation Anticipate

Author:David Cronenberg

“There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.”

Needs Problem Would Be Earth Energy Source Cost Efficient Locked Solar System Locked Up

Author:Wilson Greatbatch

“I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.”

Knows Needs Would Be Interesting Let Me Critics Philosopher Bourgeois Musings

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Poor Rich Taken Minimalism Minimalist

Author:Saint Basil

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Humanity Poor Rich Misery Needy Surplus

Author:Saint Basil

“A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.”

Ifs Men Needs May Dream Would Be Form Turns Given Waking Dreamer Casting

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.”

Needs War Would Be Cold Conflict Weapons Commitment Competition Following Release Cold War Reduction Drastic

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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