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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something t...
FLEA Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit...
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r...
DAN RATHER And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his ...
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My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh...
JIDENNA Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a wa...
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I would love to have a nice straight nose, which God never gave me!
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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave th...
ANAïS NIN My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a...
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his ...
JOHN GUNTHER I unknowingly gave him the signs of distress, and he went out of his way in helping me and my family...
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What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You kno...
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from hi...
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment ...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
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My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for ...
BRIAN BLESSED My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned ...
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m...
RADHANATH SWAMI At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniar...
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with whic...
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY Why worship fake people and not believe and worship GOD, he gave us everything, his son gave his liv...
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I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave...
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You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
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SAMUEL CROMPTON When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from ...
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his plac...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
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SHIRLEY TEMPLE![]()
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our ...
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I ask myself whether his rush had really carried him out of that mist in which he loomed interesting...
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He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Do...
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I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.
SELENA GOMEZ No one ever gave his life to translate and preserve the writings of Virgil or Homer. But many have d...
LARRY STONE Pain gave me the desire to die; tears gave me the weakness to thrive; anger gave me the will to defe...
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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
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I expressed my unhappiness about Mel leaving. That's no secret, ... The man gave his life and loyalt...
JOE TORRE The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like ...
BIBLE I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE I gave him a chance to hammer me on the Michigan State loss, which he did very well. He reminded me ...
CHARLIE WEIS
JAMES W. BLACK His dismissal of all charges against Tony Russo and myself with the eloquent denunciation of governm...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back. RAYMOND CHANDLER
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with whic... BEN OKRI
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking i... SINCLAIR LEWIS
Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two...
ANN BRASHARES James gave his life for the city, for this country.
JOSEPH ZADROGA I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something t... FLEA Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.
JASON CALABRESE I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto...
TED DEMME My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ...
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and thi... PETER MAYLE We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to ...
TREVOR RABIN My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
JACKY ICKX
My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ...
DAMIAN MARLEY The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which ...
JOSE ARANGO
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns... CHIEF JOSEPH Our Dad was a dominant force in the industry. Our agents knew me and knew I had worked closely with ...
DEBBIE JALLAD The manager held court with the media and gave one side of this unfortunate affair, which is why I'm...
BEN THATCHER
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r... DAN RATHER And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his ...
BIBLE
My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh... JIDENNA Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a wa...
BOBBY SHERMAN
I would love to have a nice straight nose, which God never gave me! JUHI CHAWLA
He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put ... ALLEN GINSBERG (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, hi...
DHANUSH They gave me their name, which was fake.
BRENDA ALLEN We gave our guests a compensation package which we felt was fair, and clearly it's not our intention...
CAROL MARLOW
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. EDWARD TUFTE Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man...
LESLIE HOWARD He gave us the gift of love and laughter, ... even in his passing.
BOB DENVER For me it's a very powerful, very moving love story. They were so deeply in love and they went throu...
RENEE ZELLWEGER
President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction ... DENNIS MILLER
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu... BOB MARLEY
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. I... SHERI L. DEW He believed in his soldiers, and, in the true spirit of his profession, gave his life protecting his...
ARMY SGT. And how many a town to which I gave respite while it was unjust, then I overtook it, and to Me is th...
QURAN Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY
Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leathe... RICK RIORDAN
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what... IMTIAZ ALI There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. ED SHEERAN
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho... FRANCIS OF ASSISI The law was his first love. He gave 100 percent of his time and energy to cases that he believed in....
KATHLEEN SMITH He was a terrific guy. He always kept his word when he gave it to you - which has become more and mo...
BOB BARTON My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
SANTIAGO CABRERA
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave th... ANAïS NIN My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a... ORSON SCOTT CARD
What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his ... JOHN GUNTHER I unknowingly gave him the signs of distress, and he went out of his way in helping me and my family...
MARVIN IMEL
What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You kno... DONALD TRUMP
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from hi... JOHN MARQUAND
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment ... VITA SACKVILLE-WEST My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for ... BRIAN BLESSED My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned ...
DAVE BRUBECK
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m... RADHANATH SWAMI At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniar...
ZEBULON PIKE
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with whic... BEN OKRI
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hyperte... NORMAN LEAR
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. JOHN UPDIKE My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence THOMAS JEFFERSON
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY Why worship fake people and not believe and worship GOD, he gave us everything, his son gave his liv...
EDISON PATRICK AMADO
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He ga... ANNA SEWELL
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In...
HECTOR ALATORRE
I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave... DOROTHY HAMILL I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave...
SIENNA MILLER I was not earning too much...had a limited money which I could not have even thought of spending on ...
GHULAM NABI Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob...
BIBLE
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ... LOUIS XIV A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few mon...
SAMUEL CROMPTON When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from ...
BIBLE
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place... ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his plac... ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which ... SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our ... JOSE MARTI
I ask myself whether his rush had really carried him out of that mist in which he loomed interesting... JOSEPH CONRAD
He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Do... MARK SPITZ The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father...
JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ
I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album. SELENA GOMEZ No one ever gave his life to translate and preserve the writings of Virgil or Homer. But many have d...
LARRY STONE Pain gave me the desire to die; tears gave me the weakness to thrive; anger gave me the will to defe...
DEBORAH SIMPSON
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a... PETER KREEFT
I expressed my unhappiness about Mel leaving. That's no secret, ... The man gave his life and loyalt... JOE TORRE The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like ...
BIBLE I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE I gave him a chance to hammer me on the Michigan State loss, which he did very well. He reminded me ...
CHARLIE WEIS
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. 
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea... 
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that... 
I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for... 
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... 
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. 
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none i... 
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. 
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th... 
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. 
So you'll teach me?" Val asked.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first conditio... 
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. 
I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every yo... 
Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately underm... 
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged... 
I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to... 
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in ... 
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. 
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. 
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, ... 