Given Quotes
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We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
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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.
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The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.
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Time cant be given. But it can be shared.
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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.
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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
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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.
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Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
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I don't want anything given to me.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
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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.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.
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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.
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I really feel that my fans have given me a lot of confidence.
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The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
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Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
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God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.
