Given Quotes
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Michael Zaslow
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.
Erma Bombeck
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Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
Sean Lennon
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If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.
Keith Anderson
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Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
Miriam Makeba
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We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.
Anthony Robbins
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There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given.
Brad Brown
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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.
Kiersten White
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We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Sarah Churchwell
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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.
Chip Heath
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Helen Keller
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Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.
Avis Bohlen
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
Michael Patrick Jann
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Tim Ferriss
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I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
Sigrid Undset
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The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water it will die. If you give it too much water, it will die. So the wisdom lies in understanding how much water should be given to the plant, so that it comes up at its best. Now this wisdom has to be achieved through your vibratory awareness.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
Hayao Miyazaki
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Lauryn Hill Fugees