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“The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.”

People Thinking Needs Able Shapes Basketball League Mold Jordan Puppets Reins

Author:Dennis Rodman

“Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.”

Needs Acting Shapes Tough

Author:Juliette Binoche

“Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.”

Needs Wells Grows Economy Shapes Paid Critical Debt Deficit Paid Off

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.”

Needs Helping Form Winning Team Football Shapes Digging Toughness Mental Toughness Digging Deep

Author:Tom Brady

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”

Knows Needs Moments Action Speak Accepting Wonderful Strange Shapes Universal Eternity Flesh Clock Warmth Nests Hold Fast

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

People Needs Long Matter Used Sin Talking Pride Praying One Day Shapes Long Time Blind Salvation Right Time

Book:The Best of Faulkner

Source: The Best of Faulkner

“The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.”

“If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.”

Ifs Want Needs Has Beens Self Pain Desire Possibility Shapes Garden Casts Monsters Consumers Adam Toil Hunters Serpent Adam And Eve Drudgery Hunter Gatherers

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Ifs Knows Needs Self Hard Names Loss Steps Trouble Strange Cost Shapes Strongest Latent Activate Nectar

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems