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Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.
I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.
What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.
Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.
I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.
You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?
As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.
There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context