Helping Quotes - Page 27

• World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

  George P. Shultz

  Country, Organization, People

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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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• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Skills, Listening

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• Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

  Gus Van Sant

  People, Balls, Sometimes

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Country, People, Needs

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• I have some help on tweeting.

  Ron Paul

  "Paul: I didn't tweet @jonhuntsman" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. January 04, 2012.

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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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• To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

  Ellen Page

  Believe, Writing, Independent

  "Ellen Page: 'I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Love Life, Arrows

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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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• I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Book, Ideas

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• If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Responsibility, Stakes, Audience

  "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

  Aloe Blacc

  Self, People, Identity

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

  Amber Benson

  Names, Freak, Computer

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

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• I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

  Birch Bayh

  Running, Father, Thinking

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