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"Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance."
"Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?"
"Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card."
"What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?"
"If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him."
"It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones."
"I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night."
"We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery."
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
"I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go."
"Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?"
"Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love."
"The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful."
"If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?"
"I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve."
"Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future."
"The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?"
"Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason."
"In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it."
"As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city."
