Sentence examples for needs to be liked from inspiring English sources

Right now, he needs to be liked.

He puts on a show – a good one, but he's an actor playing the part; McCartney's album, with its cheeky title and smiley arrangements, confirms my image of him as a man who desperately needs to be liked.

Obviously, you might not want Ann Winterton closing the Comedy Store with a selection of racist one-liners, but, in a sphere where the speaker needs to be liked, a half-decent joke is the quickest way to reassure the public that you are human just like them.

But given that a multinational gets 60% or more of its revenue from international markets, it really needs to be liked everywhere else too.

"I don't need to be liked".

"I don't need to be liked," he repeats.

"You're feeding your need to be liked, your need to be valued, your need to be needed".

I see you behind your plastic smile, bitchy pout and desperate need to be liked.

Mr. Spader also seems not to have the actor's gene for needing to be liked.

Where do you think your need to be liked comes from?

"You don't need to be liked, you've got all the guns".