"You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet."
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"The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope."
"Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!"
"Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give."
"I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away."
"Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results."
"The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians."
"I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of."
"If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun."
"No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in."
"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst."
"Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences."
"I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you."
"That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out."
"Some people don't feel like they need to give anything back because it's like, "Oh, if you're famous, you can just keep giving, and it doesn't matter." It's not just about money. It's not just about giving people gifts or whatever."
"There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish."
"I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy."
"Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring."
"Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?"
"Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy."