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• Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."

  Tariq Ali

  Years, People, Giving

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

  Jackson Harris

  Artist, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

  Nas

  Artist, Giving, Want

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

  Nas

  People, Giving, Understanding

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

  Jeremy Scott

  People, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

  Jeremy Scott

  Giving, Shining, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Heart, Fire

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Meaningful, Giving, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer.

  Scott Raab

  Jobs, Giving, Nannies

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect they're families, I effect their beliefs about themselves and it gives me so much joy

  John Assaraf

  People, Giving, Joy

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.

  John Assaraf

  Prayer, Communication, Giving

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending on this match to give me a contract. So please don't think I will die in the Nigeria job.

  Stephen Keshi

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.sl10.ng

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• I understand that the results I've had in my career, or I'm having now, they are very good. And that gives me confidence, of course, but I do not feel invincible.

  Novak Djokovic

  Careers, Giving, Results

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• The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, War, People

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

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• If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.

  Robert Barry

  Light, Space, Giving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Giving, Silence, Vote

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.

  Snoop Dogg

  Clothes, People, Giving

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  Source: gawker.com

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• Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

  James Hillman

  Past, Giving, Causes

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Talking, Games, Play

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations; in particular, I'm thinking of HRC (the Human Rights Campaign), GLAAD... but there are many, many others, too. Along with those organizations come some savvy and tested leaders who have come to understand not only how to change hearts and minds but also legislators and judges votes.

  Steven Petrow

  Powerful, Struggle, Heart

  "Civilities: We'll be talking about your reactions to the Orlando massacre for the full hour". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 21, 2016.

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• I was doing 100 pushups by 8 years old. My dad was the type like he'd have friends over and be like, "My son can do that, Ryan drop and give me 100 pushups!" and would have me do it for his friends. It was that type of household.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Son, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.

  Jessica Lange

  Exercise, Men, Class

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Letting Go, Giving, Scary

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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