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My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.