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“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”

Want Shows Running Night Given Roles Standing Actresses Reviews Every Night Initials Ovation

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”

Country Past Given Media Ethics Presses Surprise Decades Code Code Of Ethics

Author:Roger Mudd

“I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Looks Able Song Given Blessing Great Gifts

Author:Teena Marie

“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Values Given Walking Activity Communicate Architecture Aesthetic Rooted Human Activity Added Value

Author:Thom Mayne

“Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.”

Years Children Littles Three Given Five Share Computer Five Years Site Five Year Olds Nickelodeon

Author:Todd McFarlane

“There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.”

Feels Hard Helping Given Be Good Factors Performers How You Feel Hinder

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.”

World Stills Given Mankind Danger Priorities Dialogue Acknowledge Contradiction Versus Realised Bloodshed

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.”

Years Light Wanted Courses Given Building Surprise Engineers Soar Headache

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.”

People America Given Term Gone Four Cutting Taxes Congress Scales Income Relief Tax Cuts

Author:Richard Neal

“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

Enough Opportunity Given Lines Female Males Bottom Producers Bottom Line Female Writers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.”

People Writing Important Choices Given Nations Opinion Position Reader Perception Pages Publishers Columns Editorials Implicit

Author:Daniel Okrent

“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”

Humans Government Given Difficult Support Pieces Imagine Particular Dignity Bills Human Life Ministers Brown Prime Legislation Prime Minister Sanctity

Author:Keith O'Brien

“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”

Art Strong Given Black White Tradition Size Population Australia Black And White Cartoonist

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.”

Stills Different Able Film Given Creative Television Lucky Areas Theatre Be Creative

Author:Richard O'Brien

“You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.”

Artist Song Given Honest

Author:Rita Ora

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.”

People Thinking Want Jobs Given Company Comfort Prove Built Tasks Majority Structure Minorities

Author:Mark Pincus

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.”

Persons Important Law Lost Given Subjects Bases Constitution British Destroyed Patriotic Representatives Venture Consent

Author:Joseph Warren

“Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.”

Heart Religion Faith Language Given Subjects Secular

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.”

Reality Given Accepting Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”

Giving Years Feelings Wanted Humanity Given Study Blessing Ten Blessed

Author:Brandon Bays

“The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.”

World Giving Wells Ideas God Given Stuff Lord Amount Dominion Gift From God

Author:David Attenborough

“And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.”

Believe Ends Moments God Next Given Lifetime Hopefully Believe In Us Next Lifetime

Author:Forest Whitaker

“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.”

“It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.”

People Firsts Spirit Given Mets Meetings Albums Max Great People Carter Dukes Armstrong

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama’s hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright’s decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.”

Should Given Church Relation Critics Israel Campaigns Posts Palestinian Hostility Website Membership Anti Semitic Reverends

Author:David Limbaugh

“I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?”

Two Given Chance Numbers Five Wife Type Months Right Now Charm Marrying

Author:Vince Neil

“The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.”

Ifs Way Feels Real Home Games Strong Given Causes Week Negative Reactions Feel Good Game Changers

Author:Ron Pope

“At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.”

Persons Matter Given Sides

Author:Scott Porter

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

Actors Opportunity Given Materials Tvs Scene Series Luxury Time Spent Tv Series

Author:Vincent Piazza

“The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.”

World Years Able Lasts Artist Given Nice Couple Nice Things

Author:Brad Paisley

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.”

Has Beens Facts Opportunity Given Nations Process Steps Taken Europe Good Things Unions Zone Solidarity Defects Greece Euro

Author:George Papandreou

“There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.”

People Feels Helping Hands Artist Given Duty Helping Hand

Author:Hugo Pratt

“We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.”

Believe House Given Millions Needed Billions Pounds Housing Discounts Public Housing

Author:John Prescott

“The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.”

Years Country Problem Government Given Effort Crisis Financial Size Storm Passing Passings Our Country Financial Crisis Insistence

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.”

Has Beens Values Given Taken Greater Possibility Giving Up Optimistic Not Giving Up

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.”

Given Written Students College Letters Scholarship Columbia Best Students

Author:David Rubenstein

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.”

Said Kids Law Mother Guy Given Wife Love You One Day My Wife Compliment Airports In-laws Family Love Mother In Law Kids Love Wives Love

Author:Lionel Richie

“I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.”

Looks Has Beens Play Film Fall Three Given Couple Desks Goats

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.”

Given Ability Strange

Author:Michael Richards

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.”

Trying Given Television Scene

Author:John Slattery

“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Opportunity Given Given Opportunity

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

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