All I Want VS All I Need

This is what I would like in my significant other.

• Intelligent conversations late at night. This is important. 
• I can't respect you if you don't stand up to me now and then. Yes, I like getting my own way but I don't want to date a pushover either.
• Physically, they'll have to be tall and tanned with a rascally smirk and a mop of messy dark hair. If they have been blessed with poor eyesight and the need for spectacles, that will all be a contribution to the greater good (aren't gorgeous geeks just adorable?).
• The most chivalrous attitude since the dawn of the Arthurian legends.
• A mutual passion for reading and heatedly debating the merits of one series of books against another (books > films).
• A deep and abiding love for martial arts and action flicks (no rom-coms from this lady!).
• The gift for culinary orgasms. I cannot cook. One of us needs to ensure that we can survive through a zombie apocalypse without resorting to instant noodles (which I also cannot make- there is a story about this).
• Romance. Or what I think romance is. I am easily satisfied and throwing chocolate at me would probably suffice. 
• Affection. Lots of it. I will die without this.
• An encyclopedic knowledge of The A Team (the film is my all time favorite therefore if you cannot quote from it I may morph into a typical female and throw hissy fits for weeks).

But what's the point considering the old adage that you may keep the idea of a perfect person for you in your head, but when they come along they're the furthest thing away from all that you imagined?

It's the difference between what I want and what I need.