Giving Quotes

Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Give me an honest laugher.

Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"