#need

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#does #establish #india #need #power

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ↗

— Henry Adams

#certain #community #friend #friendship #hardly

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#auditioning #before #character #common #develop

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#gotta #keep #makes #need #ourselves

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#always #childhood #deep #embedded #feel

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#articulate #come #i #lot #me

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#because #frustration #get #hurt #i

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#communities #effect #globally #great #great change