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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want.

People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.