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I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Tennis has given me soul.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.