Given Quotes
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Vincente Minnelli
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[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.
Barack Obama
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey
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More than anything, it's [yoga] really led to a solid belief in two fundamental things: that we have everything we will ever need, and more, within us, and we are all one. Not only has it given me great lessons in abundance and the infiniteness of our gifts, but it has led to a more conscious enjoyment of my work and my life.
Reggie Lee
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
William J. Mayo
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Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.
Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.
Dolly Parton
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I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.
David LaChapelle
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
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We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.
John Young
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My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.
Ernest Gellner
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark
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It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.
Tilda Swinton
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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
Andy Roddick
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I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."
Arthur Holly Compton
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
William Golding
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Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.
Ted Nelson
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
William Shakespeare
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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
Davy Rothbart