Given Quotes
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
Hilary Mantel
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
Tony Blair
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
Timothy Bottoms
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So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.
Michael Chertoff
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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I've always enjoyed mixing and mingling with the Tasmanian community and that's, if you like, the bread and butter of politics. And from my perspective, it's meant more time at home, which I also enjoy and it's also meant the greater interaction with the Tasmanian community. And it's also given me freedom to speak out.
Eric Abetz
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We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.
Walter Hilton
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
Stephen Sondheim
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At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
Nathan C. Schaeffer
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I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.
Mia Hamm
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If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
Wilt Chamberlain
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
Lois McMaster
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A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.
Steve Martin
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If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
Bert McCracken
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I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.
Josh Young
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Know how to live with the time that is given you.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
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If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?
Karyn Calabrese
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You only learn if you're given a crack at things.
Ray Fearon
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If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.
Esther Perel
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
Mike Leigh
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The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.
Michel Martelly
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
Stephen Spender