Give Me Quotes - Page 39

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  Zosia Mamet

  Giving, Alive, Hours

  "Next Gen 2012: Actresses", www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts to express my pains and joys, it became clear to me that there would be no other way to work through the demons except to fully embrace the process of creation. The work was not personal therapy but had a connection to other peoples' realities. As I grow older and more mature, it becomes clearer to me that personal struggles and conflicts are connected with universal struggles and conflicts. It is this knowledge, ironically, that gives me the freedom to experiment in my work

  Reza Abdoh

  Art, Pain, Struggle

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• Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.

  Aliko Dangote

  Giving, Together, Want

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Hero, Character

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• When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

  Tom Waits

  New York, Blow, Dust

  "One for the (Style) Hall of Fame: Tom Waits's Pointed Shoes". www.esquire.com. March 15, 2011.

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• You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe, Giving, Watches

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• Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.

  Anushka Sharma

  Two, Giving, Joy

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• And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Giving, Reason

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “The Enchantress of Florence”, p.45, Random House

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• He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Tattoo, Humorous, Thinking

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• I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Giving, Relaxation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

  James Coburn

  Girl, Giving, Smoking

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

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• The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

  William J. Clinton

  Future, People, Giving

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• The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Religious, Giving

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated Edition): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.881, e-artnow

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• Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Music, Giving, Lists

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• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Opportunity, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

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• My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass'. I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

  Jamie Foxx

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

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

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• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Giving, Justice

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• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, Pain, Children

  "FIRST-PERSON: The faith of Patrick Henry" by Kelly Boggs, www.bpnews.net. June 27, 2014.

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• There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

  Clifford Odets

  Giving, Months, Minutes

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• It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

  Monica Seles

  Motivational, Sports, Giving

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• I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

  Paul Ryan

  Atheist, Philosophy, Views

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• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

  PJ Harvey

  Play, Giving, Energy

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• Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Quests, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Believe, Dark

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