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"When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage."
"I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to."
"Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone."
"Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch."
"Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform."
"To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer."
"I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across."
"I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing."
"The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this."
"Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so."
"Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power."
"But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?"
"I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did."
"Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them."
"Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat."
"One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives."
"The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech."
"Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes."
"I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!"
"Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself."
