"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing."
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"In a crisis, give help first and then advice."
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"Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door."
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"Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others."
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"I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market."
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"Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow."
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"I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals."
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"I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for."
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"No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away."
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"They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache."
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"It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak."
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"The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera."
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"If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit"
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"Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing."
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"You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do."
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"A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police."
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"I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food."
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"The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love."
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"God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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