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You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I like to spend my time with my children.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.