Helping Quotes - Page 17

• I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Play, People, Musician

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• I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Doctors, Knives, Pills

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• The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Parenting, Helping Others

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Thinking, Issues

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Games, Two

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• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  Gary Sinise

  Military, Call Me

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

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• When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

  Bobby Jindal

  Care, Congress, Affordable

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• So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

  Chris Martin

  Drug, Records, Paper

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• I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

  Jordin Sparks

  Running, Grandmother, Bakers

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• I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Children, World

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

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• To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

  Hank Haney

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

  "'It's not easy being Tiger'". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, People, Sides

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• Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Thinking, Down And

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• I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

  Alastair Campbell

  Believe, Political, Way

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• My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

  Polly Toynbee

  Mother, Doctors, Dying

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

  Peter Jackson

  Rivalry

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

  Ivan Reitman

  Comedy

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• A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Sprung Up, Voice

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• People always tell me, Don’t work so much, but I can’t help it. I feel like all the things I’ve done are important to get to this adult stage now and now I’m getting all these adult offers, so it’s working.

  Kirsten Dunst

  People, Important, Adults

  "Kirsten Dunst for “Crazy/Beautiful”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 29, 2001.

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• I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

  Eve Arnold

  Mirrors, People, World

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• With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.

  Marco Arment

  Iphone, Trying, Delight

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• If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

  Josie Bissett

  Kids, Passionate, Actors

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• My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

  Joy Bryant

  Husband, Hate, School

  "'Hit & Run's' Joy Bryant on Dax Shepard, Stunt Driving and Nude Senior Citizens" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

  Mark Batterson

  Email, My Family, Help Me

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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