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• Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...

  Laura Nyro

  Children, Our World, Long

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• There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.

  Norbert Bisky

  People, Giving, Wish

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• The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Girl, Stars, Giving

  Films Illustrated, May-June 1980.

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• I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

  Martin Amis

  Kings, Writing, Giving

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• If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

  John Banville

  Nice, Giving, Bloody

  Personal Profile, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

  Gwen Stefani

  Funny, Giving, Causes

  Song: 4 in the Morning, Album: The Sweet Escape

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• I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

  Steven Spielberg

  Giving, Wish, Cinema

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

  Peter Falk

  Giving, Ill, Particular

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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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• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  Yancy Butler

  Giving, Trying, Littles

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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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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 166), 1964.

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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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• My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

  Christian Scriver

  Heart, Giving, Contentment

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 161), 1895.

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• Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Giving, Monkeys

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• It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

  Nigel Benn

  Retirement, Giving, Needs

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• Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.

  Gregory Orr

  Strong, Moving, Knowing

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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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• Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 561), 1922.

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• I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Years, Feet

  "Perry prayed for bust results". The Sun, August 17, 2009.

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• This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

  Tori Amos

  Christian, Son, Giving

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• All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

  Chandler Parsons

  Hard Times, Nba, Giving

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• To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

  Plutarch

  Fighting, Giving, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

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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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