Given Quotes - Page 9

• I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

  Simin Daneshvar

  Running, Wish, World

  "Savushun". Book by Simin Daneshvar, www.theguardian.com. 1969.

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• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Giving, Needs, Credit

  "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.

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• The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Country, Years, Deployment

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• Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Moving, People, Rude

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• I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Fighting, Play, Style

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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• Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Differences, Community

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• The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates.  It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Population, Earth

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• The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people... The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

  Pope Pius IX

  Civilization, Ideas, People

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• For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.

  David LaChapelle

  Opportunity, Photographer, Easier

  "David LaChapelle: 'I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist'". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

  Dennis Potter

  Use, Talent, Obligation

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• I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Player, Games

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

  Branch Rickey

  Games, White, Knowing

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• The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

  James Monroe

  Numbers, People, Support

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

  David Platt

  Ideas, Giving, Why Not

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.123, Multnomah

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• Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Tolerance, Black, Levels

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• Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

  Peter Steele

  Taken, Joy, Deeds

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• I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

  Edith Stein

  Girl, Years, Jewish Religion

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• I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

  Anya Seton

  Men, Grace, Firsts

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• I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

  Alan Shearer

  Play, Numbers, Special

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• When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

  Alan Shearer

  Home, Night, Mirrors

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• This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain our self. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is Ground on whom our prayer springeth; and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of His love. For if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have, of our Lord’s gift, all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Pain, Believe

  Julian of Norwich, Grace Warrack (2017). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

  Rollo May

  Perspective, Historical, Facts

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.

  John Fund

  Song, War, Guy

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