Give Me Quotes - Page 12

• In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.

  Susannah Constantine

  Husband, Giving, My Best Friend

  "Retail therapists" by Fiona Neill, The Times, July 14, 2007.

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• What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Attitude, Children, Years

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• [The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.

  Theodore Guerin

  Giving, Community, Trials

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• Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

  Jose Lezama Lima

  Giving, All Things, Externalities

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• Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Song, Grandma

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books

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• Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Giving, Classic, Spontaneity

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

  Peter Falk

  Giving, Ill, Particular

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• Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
  A tender heart, a loyal mind,
  Which with temptation I could trust,
  Yet never linked with error find.

  George Darley

  Heart, Errors, Giving

  George Darley (1908). “The complete poetical works of George Darley now first collected, reprinted from the rare original editions in the possession of the Darley family”

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• All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Encouragement, Book, Artist

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• My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.

  Joel Klein

  Funny, Nice, Stupid

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Hard Times

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• And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

  David Gest

  Hands, Giving, Answers

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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• That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Attention, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.

  Wesley Snipes

  Wall, Character, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"

  J. B. Bernstein

  Military, Kids, Athlete

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• I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Jesus, Struggle, Blessed

  Source: yeticket.com

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• I love my fans very much. They give me the confidence to continue things in life.

  Bow Wow

  Things In Life, Giving, Fans

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• My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

  David Lynch

  Mother, Children, Book

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.

  Shirley Jackson

  Mother, Giving, Worry

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• in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.

  Betty Rollin

  Mother, Giving, Different

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• This is my fault. Give me the ball.

  Bronko Nagurski

  Nfl, Giving, Balls

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• As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Mother, Children

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• Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Two, Giving

  Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: bknation.org

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