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It helps me when I help people.
It gives me satisfaction to help people.
People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.
I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.
The thing people see about me is my tattoos more than anything, but the color aspect does not help.
To be able to give back and be able to help people, it means a lot to me. I'm humbled by it, honestly.
I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
When I put my credibility behind someone, or anything - even if it's a product - to me, it has to help people.
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
I've been able to meet interesting people who have helped me. And, in turn, I want to help out my fellow NBA players.
What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.
As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.
I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.
With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.
I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.
'The Chairs are Where the People Go' was told to me by my friend Misha Glouberman; I typed as he talked. In 'How Should a Person Be?' the transcribed dialogues between me and my friends help form the structure of the book.
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.
See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see.
I wasn't sure how it would unfold once I got to the NBA, but I knew if I got to the NBA, I could then have the platform and have the resources and the connections and the people around me that had more connections and more resources to help me really impact a lot of people's lives.
As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.