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• I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

  Anna Held

  People, Wish, Want

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• I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

  Hugo Chavez

  Want, Let Me, Dies

  "Heart attack killed a suffering Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela's presidential guard says" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2013.

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• As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Humble, Perfect, Doe

  "Song: "Family Talk" ("The Live Adventure")". 1993.

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• I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Kids, Students

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same approach for me. But if I start doing pratfalls, somebody please pull the plug on me.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Real, People, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Ordinary, Different

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.

  Ted Hughes

  Feet, Body, Sophistry

  'Hawk Roosting' (1960)

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• Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

  Allen Iverson

  Nice, Trying, Want

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• You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

  Robert Jordan

  Pleasing Everyone

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on this planet to please men, that they have to fake, and they never worry about their own pleasure.

  Jenna Jameson

  Men, Thinking, Epidemics

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• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, School, Please Me

  Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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• No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.

  Britney Spears

  The End Of The Day, Matter, Ends

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• A man after God's own heart is...
  a man who yearns to please God,
  a man who desires to grow spiritually,
  a man who had a heart that obeys.

  Jim George

  Heart, Men, Desire

  Jim George (2015). “A Young Man After God's Own Heart: A Teen's Guide to a Life of Extreme Adventure”, p.50, Harvest House Publishers

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• Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more?

  Celine Kiernan

  Dwelling, Pirate, Shadow

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• Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Mean, May, Courses

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• Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

  Paul Laseau

  Firsts, Please Yourself, Ifs

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Vanguard, Polemics

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• You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Reading, Desire, Motivated

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Balance, Unlikely

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Thinking, Vacuums

  Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press

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• Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, May, Sake

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1895). “Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon”

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• Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Giving Up, Winning, Thinking

  "Mistress of Mistresses". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1935.

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• It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Happiness, Spiritual, Leaving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.

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