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"We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry."
"Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us."
"Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?"
"Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give."
"Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation."
"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
"I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely."
"[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money."
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest."
"If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given."
"For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind."
"I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice."
"When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when you're giving birth: Push like you're trying to win a prize, like you want to be the best patient he's ever had. He's going to give you a prize for winning that." So I did. [The doctor] said, "You are probably the best pusher I've had as a patient.""
"Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes."
"[Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian religion. It is an essential fundamental principle of all religions, whatever stage of development a society has reached, to sympathize with others and to promote that spirit of equality."
"Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other."
"If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die."
"No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance."
"I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath."
