“It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.” PeopleKnowsGivingWellsI CanImportantDifferencesSupportGive MeWell BeingMaking A DifferenceSupport Women Author:Sheila Johnson
“I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.” PeopleGivingWantedUsedStreetsDrugProtectGive MeSpendingReputationOccasionsShoppingCopPursesBotox Author:Michelle Tea
“Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.” PeopleKnowsGivingKindLongRealJobsSuccessfulNew YorkLong TimeGive MeCall MeNetworking Author:Joel Stein
“I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.” PeopleGivingShouldDreamBigsChanceGive MeHopefullyAnother Chance Author:Tom DeLonge
“I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel the joy that gets ignited when kindred spirits are together. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.” PeopleWorldGivingFeelsTogetherJoySpiritThis WorldDrawsGive MeEngagementBetter PlaceKindredKindred Spirit Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingWellsUseYoungIssuesDevelopmentInvolvedBenefitsConcernToolsGive MeRegionsSeizingGlobal Issues Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I listen to purely Christian Worship Music, Christian Rap etc. People will give me some old music, stuff I used to listen to back then and when I listen to the words, it blows me away.” PeopleGivingChristianUsedStuffWorshipGive MeBlowRapEtcOld MusicChristian WorshipWorship Music Author:Christian Hosoi
“It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingKindMomentsBigsMovingSidesInterestingMy FriendsGive MeSillyMoving ForwardSense Of HumorKnow MeFamily And FriendsResponding Author:Aaron Tveit
“I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesRoomsAttentionWallMusicianGive MeLeavingPerformersEditing Author:Travis Morrison
“I've been going through a lot of... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.” PeopleNeedsGivingFeelsKindEnoughForceStuffSpaceGive MeInterviewsGracious Author:Bradford Cox
“I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?” PeopleGivingShouldCareDifficultJusticeMy OwnRaceGive MeStressAfterlifeWho Cares Author:Michael Emerson
“I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.” PeopleWayGivingHas BeensYoungMetsGive MeRememberedGenerousComing BackSpirited Author:Vashti Bunyan
“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."” PeopleIfsGivingYearsSaidPoetGive MeTwentiesDearAlsSkepticTeaseParody Author:Tariq Ali
“People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.” PeopleWayGivingLooksSaidDifferentUnderstandingGive MeDifferent Ways Author:Nas
“I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.” PeopleGivingGive Me Author:Jeremy Scott
“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.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingMindHeartSoulChristianYoungJoyFireGive MeClassroomReignSuperficialHeart And MindHeart And SoulBling Author:Cornel West
“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” PeopleWantGivingHelpingJoyBeliefEffectsGive MeIncomeHelping PeopleMaximizing Author:John Assaraf
“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.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenWarTurnsBeliefHellGive MeSavedVietnam Author:Muhammad Ali
“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.” PeopleGivingWantedFeltClothesGive MeMama Author:Snoop Dogg
“People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.” PeopleKnowsGivingHardUseSimpleCommonPrinciplesFourHard WorkGive MeLiving My LifeAdoptedPrudenceSimple LifeSimple LivingDonationPunctuality Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.” PeopleGivingTryingPassionGive MeDiedWildlife Author:Jeff Corwin
“When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.” PeopleGivingFeelsPersonsAsksEnergyGive MeStartingEngaging Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.” PeopleGivingHardGamesLostInterestWatchesExcitingGive MeEnglandInternationalLeagueChampionReversePremier LeagueChampions League Author:Michael Owen
“Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingSometimesLaughingAdviceGive MeRocketsLikeableRocket Science Author:Ted Cruz
“It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people that are everywhere you go. That's who I make records for and I don't expect all of them to give me pay $11.99 to hear my record.” PeopleMenGivingPayRecordsWalkingNormalGive MeStoresBlockOld ManChicks Author:Mic Geronimo
“For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.” PeopleWantGivingLittlesHappeningsGive MeStorytellingNarrative Author:Gregory Crewdson
“[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.” PeopleWantGivingProcessViewsCreativeSubjectsMusic IsGive MeCreative ProcessPersonal Life Author:Tyga
“I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingYearsKindEnoughPresidentAdviceTrumpSmartMouthsGive MeSevenRanGovernorsSeven YearsGood AdviceAdvisors Author:Chris Christie
“When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.” PeopleWantGivingGirlFriendshipGive MeCrushCall MeComplimentGirl Crush Author:Mindy Kaling
“I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.” PeopleGivingWritingLooksSaidBookUseChristianLastsFoundGivenCommunityChurchCompanyCallingAdvantageOkayGive MeFortuneIntentionScreensFavorsSecularRadarChristian Community Author:John C. Maxwell
“I love that I'm able to take people away just for a little while. Even if they come to my show and it's an escape from taxes or heartbreak or a shitty workplace experience - all those human beings I get to sing for laugh and emote with give me more happiness than I could ever give them.” PeopleIfsGivingHumansLittlesShowsAbleHuman BeingsLaughingTaxesGive MeWorkplaceEmote Author:Michael Buble
“I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.” PeopleGivingFirstsLittlesDoeEnoughMomentsChoicesAbilityDecisionWatchesWeekGive MeInstinctAppealsIdolsHumiliationSophisticationAmerican Idol Author:Norman Lear
“The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingIdeasOne ThingMinesGive MeCredit Author:John Calipari
“I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.” PeopleThinkingGivingLaughingSeriousNeededNegativeGive MeFeedbackForumsSerious ThingsNegative Feedback Author:Cakes da killa
“I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.” PeopleGivingWellsHas BeensWholeCertainMissingGive MeIntelligentBlueSeriesGuidanceAddressesHelpful Author:Werner Herzog
“Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.” PeopleGivingKindProblemForgetTakenFocusImpossibleJourneyGive MeInspiredBe InspiredImpossible ThingsLooking Ahead Author:David Copperfield
“Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.” PeopleMenNeedsGivingAbleSpeakWaterSleepFrontsInformationDrinkGive Me Author:Kanye West
“I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.” PeopleThinkingGivingPoliticalFightingBehindsPagesGive MeLeavingCorruptionElitesKenyaImpunity Author:Kofi Annan
“To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsWellsBigsAmericaPastThreeWealthChanceRight NowAchievementGive MeGapsQuartersChunksAchievement GapPast Wrongs Author:Barack Obama
“I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.” PeopleGivingLuckyGive MeSurroundFeedback Author:Lena Dunham
“Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."” PeopleGivingBlackLinesCollegeGive MeBritishLiberation Author:Dick Gregory
“To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.” PeopleGivingFeelsMeanUseNightStrugglePerspectiveGive MeWinterShut UpAsianBack WhenWhiningStruggling To Survive Author:Maynard James Keenan
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation, and because of these irrelevant people being demonised by liberal media, I've had to live years, frankly, of being frightened of walking out into the street all because the media picked out these people. And because of these people, attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name.” PeopleGivingYearsNamesHappenedStreetsMediaPositionWalkingGive MeFrightenedIrrelevantOrganisationWalking OutLiberal Media Author:Nigel Farage
“The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingTryingArtOpportunityProcessSubjectsColorReaderProjectsCreatingRootsGive MeSlaveryClientsArtworkPlantationsCreating ArtIllustrating Author:Jerry Pinkney
“If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not exist, it does not count. I get very annoyed when my Palestinian friends complain, 'Why didn't they give me a permit, I am not a terrorist,' because it is not about the person, it is about a policy that people can't articulate because there is no discourse to explain the political intention behind it.” PeopleIfsGivingPersonsDoePoliticalBornBehindsPolicyBabyGive MeIntentionComplainingTerroristPermitPalestinianMinistryDiscourseInteriorsIsraeliAnnoyedGaza Author:Amira Hass
“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.” PeopleIfsWantGivingChildrenWould BeMotherFlowerGive MeOur ChildrenGuiltChocolate Author:Anne Lamott
“I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.” PeopleGivingBelieveTwoThreeI BelieveHoursWillingPrideGive MeBusyI Believe InEntertainingNobilityBusy Life Author:John Lasseter
“Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.” PeopleGivingJoyGive MePet Author:Bob Barker
“A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.” PeopleNeedsGivingHardGive MeHandlePlusCandyGarbageLollipopHard Candy Author:Demetri Martin