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"I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense."
"They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts."
"This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts."
"We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise."
"I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away."
"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime."
"We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor."
"Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses"
"Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing is how genius people are. You'll be thinking about some area that needs improving, and then someone just comes in and gives you that little bit of energy. Free online education doesn't solve everything, but you open the window and you build on each other."
"The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money."
"Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without."
"Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants."
"No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles."
"Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?"
"The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life."
"I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."
"I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion."
"An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in."
"To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."
"Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'"
