"Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance."
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"...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver."
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"I'm not really the give TVs or turkeys kind of guy. I feel like we can do more good by inspiring people wholeheartedly and truthfully than we can just by giving them something because that creates a cycle of expecting you to give them something."
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"Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted."
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"Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound."
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"The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later."
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"Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet"
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"In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal."
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"If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance."
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"I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents."
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"A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride."
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"She make me beg for it until she give it up"
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"Since I started, I've always been giving my music away for free. I've always kind of done it for the people. I don't want to lose my fans completely because they support me in a way that's more than just listening to my music. They support me like we're friends. They support me like they have emotions invested in it."
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"I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter."
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"Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them."
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"You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way."
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"I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time."
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"Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal."
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"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them."
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"Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all."
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