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• Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

  Al Franken

  Couple, Hero, Giving

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2000.

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• Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Play, Giving, Interesting

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Giving, Months

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Witty

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• Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Giving, Minutes

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• God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

  Billy Graham

  Grace And Mercy, Our World, Giving

  Billy Graham, Hallmark Cards, Inc (2006). “Life wisdom from Billy Graham: Billy Graham”

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• I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

  Dave Grohl

  School, Mean, Ikea

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• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  Bear Grylls

  Giving, Emotion, Treats

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Stupid, Equality

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  People, Giving, Movie Love

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• Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

  Josh Hartnett

  Congratulations, Self, Giving

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• If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

  Salma Hayek

  Educational, America, Giving

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• Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

  Salma Hayek

  Cheer, Giving, Why Not

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• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  Salma Hayek

  Mistake, Cutting, Giving

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• Give me liberty or give me death.

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Military, Giving

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

  Patrick Henry

  Inspirational, Death, Giving

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Heart, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  Faith Hill

  Good Day, Feet, Giving

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• I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Thinking, Giving, Surfing

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

  LL Cool J

  Grateful, Giving, Secret

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• Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

  Wolfman Jack

  Play, Giving, Today

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• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

  Hugh Jackman

  Daughter, Mother, Running

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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