Given Quotes
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia Woolf
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But I have never been given a helmet before.
Claire Williams
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
Ernest Hemingway
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
Tilda Swinton
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In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.
Geoff Capes
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I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866.
Carl Correns
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Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
George Halas
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
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The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
Viola Davis
