Given Quotes
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In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.
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Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living.
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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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."
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.
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I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.
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Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.
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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
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God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
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The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings.
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Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
