#needed

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#could #day #draw #drawn #every

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#began #building #finished #house #know

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#back #castro #coming #communists #exhibition

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government. ↗

— Jan Tinbergen

#governments #longer #mankind #national #needed

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything. ↗

— Liz Phair

#approached #being #i #intensely #like

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done. ↗

— Liz Phair

#being #care #done #endlessly #feelings

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#began #i #immigration #issue #needed

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#had #half #hour #hours #i

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#biggest #biggest thing #conditioned #high #how