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"I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power."
"I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game."
"It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink."
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
"Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint."
"If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have."
"People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life."
"A certain giving up of control is good for the soul."
"I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game."
"It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff."
"The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life."
"If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will."
"I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to."
"We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next."
"Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth."
"The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight."
"There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start."
"Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me."
"Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds."
"I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable."
