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"I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away."
"We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan."
"I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz."
"I hate giving away tricks, you have to create an impression and not an image. You want audiences to look at certain places and not look at other places. And when you've got the help of modern-day abilities with technology, it's a much more natural look."
"You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up."
"You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell."
"So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget."
"What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away."
"I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too."
"You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals."
"The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it."
"Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like."
"She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head."
"They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven."
"I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man."
"A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes."
"If we take, we lose. If we give, we get. It cannot be otherwise."
"It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it."
"Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out."
"If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true."
