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Giving Quotes
"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
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"When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you."
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
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"The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get."
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"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."
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"I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
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"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
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"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."
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"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
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"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."
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"I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away."
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"Give yourself without expecting any return."
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"Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing."
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"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping."
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"What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it."
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"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
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"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
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"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."
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"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."
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"I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up."
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"When I was earning, saving, and spending, I felt poor. When I started to give away some of my earning for good purposes, abundance filled my heart."
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"Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer."
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"I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump."
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"Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day."
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"We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them."
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"It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his."
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"There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself."
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"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."
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"So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva."
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"These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world."
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