If I ever need to say "my boss is an idiot" in German, I can, thanks to my pastry shop lessons.
And everything sensible we ever needed to say with our talk of mind can, at least in principle, be said in terms of behavioural dispositions or functional roles.
We don't ever need to say this out loud -- the thought I'm better than them emanates from our very pores.
In the 2003 novel "Lost Light," one scene actually finds Bosch attempting to play "Lullaby" on the saxophone: "The song wasn't even a minute-and-a-half long," he muses, "but to me it said all that ever needed to be said about being alone in the world".
"He was always there for you if you ever needed to talk," she said, standing outside the Chardon Middle School.
"Things are still hotter than they ever needed to be," Christopher Trumbo said of Hollywood's obsession with the blacklist.
"I can't believe you ever needed to do drugs," I say, because he's 45 now, but in his younger days, hanging out with the likes of Noel Gallagher, he used to "toot for England".
"I told my daughter that one of the reasons I'm flying is in case she ever needed to be rescued," she says.
"This is the only area of Suffolk County where we anticipate ever needing to do this," Mr. Hopkins said.
When 'The Cloisters' nursing home was being built, she would often say, 'If I ever need to go a nursing home, I'll go there'......But I suppose it's easy to say that at the time.
