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"What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you."
"We don't give 'em no respect..none!"
"The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures."
"You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it."
"My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion."
"The volatile natural gas market has affected us all, and we are giving our customers an option to lock in their electricity price for the entire year. This will allow them to anticipate their electricity bills and budget accordingly throughout 2006."
"I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love."
"He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing."
"Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic."
"Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life."
"Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders."
"My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it does is that because the world is willing to listen to them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that ...what has happened before might happen again. It's something to aim for."
"If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway."
"I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance."
"Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings."
"It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing."
"You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better."
"Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are."
"Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving."
"A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up."
