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“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

“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 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

“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

“I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.”

Thinking Given Tree Hills Just Being Tree Hill

Author:Kate Voegele

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind I Can Play Feelings Would Be Given Identity Football Bed Desperate American Football

Author:Keith Millard

“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.”

Thinking Should Ideas Actors Given Leader Offers Direct Productions Good Actors

Author:Joe Mantello

“I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.”

Thinking Littles Given Boys Baby Miracle Baby Boy

Author:Cindy Margolis

“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”

Thinking Firsts Film Next Given Watches Scene Moved Etc

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Survival Tools Sustenance

Author:John Galt

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.”

People Thinking Want Feels Might Moving Values Given Company Add Moving Forward Reviews Ceo Best Work Princeton

Author:John Katzman

“Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.”

Thinking Looks Opportunity Given Lucky

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.”

Thinking Given Religious Mouths Claims Honour

Book:Selected Literary Essays

Source: Selected Literary Essays

“Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.”

Thinking World Real Given Prove Miracle Dependable

Author:Dwight Longenecker

“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

Author:Freya Stark

“All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”

Thinking Men World Want Whole Facts Suffering Given Sin Acting Judging Conflict Destruction Whole World Given Up

Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Hands Father Opportunity Given Responsibility Principles Taught Impulse Daddy Hand In Hand Fathers Day Taught Us Great Father

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.”

“No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?”

Thinking Should Christian Given Masters Ought Slave Orthodox Orthodox Christian Brethren Cfs

Author:Saint Basil

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Given This World Yoga Karma Outstanding Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?”

Ifs Thinking World Persons Life Is Given Answers Known Prepared Curious Preparation Colleagues Domain Sequence

Author:Edwin Land

“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Enough Feelings Care Opportunity Given Understanding Special Lucky

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Country Done Government School Jobs Culture Given Sports Taken Mark Right Way Good Job Curriculum Maharashtra

Author:Gagan Narang

“I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.”

Thinking Men I Can Helping Hands Given Responsibility Greater Fellows Fellow Man Helping Hand Extending

Author:Conrad Hilton

“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“I have a lot of respect for President Obama. I consider him a friend. I disagree with him on issues like the extension of tax breaks that Bush initiated. But I think history will judge a President Obama a lot better than many other contemporaries, given the fact that he came into office at a time when this country was in terrible, terrible shape.”

Thinking Country Facts Given President Break Issues Judging Terrible Shapes Taxes Office Disagree President Obama Extensions Tax Breaks

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.”

Thinking Should Given Tape Parades

Book:Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”

Thinking Given Animal Circumstances Misery Response Unbearable Disturbed Zoos Prozac

Author:Germaine Greer

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?”

Thinking Feels Trying Given Asking

Book:Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978

Source: Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.”

Thinking Men I Can Moments Given Talent Baby

Book:The Fountains of Paradise

Source: The Fountains of Paradise

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.”

Thinking Trying Helping Given Process Pressure Sticks Efficient Parameters Time And Money

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.”

People Thinking World Real Government Given Born Opinion Dangerous Citizens Constitution West Chinese Real World

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.”

Thinking Giving Mind Life Is Given Wish Our Lives Fate Giving Up Determined

Author:George Eliot

“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”

Ifs Thinking Country Given Conditions Brother Indian Awards Altered Keepers Inappropriate American Indian Executioners

Author:Marlon Brando

“There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.”

Thinking World Firsts Form Given Immortality

Book:Lifted Masks, and Other Works

Source: Lifted Masks, and Other Works

“I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Opportunity Given Sound Practice Successful Havens Tolerance Slap

Author:Mel Gibson

“For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.”

Thinking Long Evil Given Heaven Born Adversity Fortune Endure Contrary Tricks Wicked Prisoner God's Love Constellations Saturn

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not - in his mind - undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.”

Thinking Mind Doe Made Facts Given Authenticity Factors Relate Abstract Tokens

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.”

Thinking Humans Given Grace Fronts Drug Normal Shame Forgiving Addict Alcoholics Fooled Drug Addict Dysfunction

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.”

Thinking Persons Stills Used Given Ability Situation Known Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Trey Songz

“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."”

Thinking Want Kind Done Remember Given Practice Happened Land Holy South Israel Palestinian South Africa Apartheid Being Done Anti Semitic Holy Land Checkpoints

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.”

People Thinking Mean Running Given Behinds Cameras Grounded

Author:Jennifer Lawrence