"I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest."
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"Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less."
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"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
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"I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director."
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"The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more."
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"If you want truth you should begin by giving it."
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."
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"Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages."
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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"I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now."
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"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
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"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."
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"I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty."
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"To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself."
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"I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked."
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"I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong."
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"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."
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"It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out."
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"Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?"
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"I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to…I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains."
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