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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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"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
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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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"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness."
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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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"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
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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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"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his."
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"I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away."
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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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"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
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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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"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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"Give yourself without expecting any return."
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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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"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping."
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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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"Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer."
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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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"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva."
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"I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump."
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"The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel."
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