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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
Vaclav Havel

Advice, Opinion, Theater

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
Vaclav Havel

Questions, Theater, Search

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James C. Dobson

Children, Giving, Sometimes

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch

Friends, Old, Service

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Sargent Shriver

Work, Health, Person

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
Lorraine Hansberry

Dreams, God, Children

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.''
Tim Vine

Great, Car, Said

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.
Jose Mourinho

Good, Maybe, Guys

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.
Gordon Ramsay

Today, Game, Young

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
David O. McKay

Freedom, Choice, Earth

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Arthur Rimbaud

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Power, Gratitude

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?
Emeril Lagasse

Food, Mean, Bed

I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.
Emeril Lagasse

Good, Happy, Human

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
Emeril Lagasse

Good, Down, Knew

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.
Emeril Lagasse

Future, Children, Help

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.
Emeril Lagasse

Mind, Wife, Hard

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.
Emeril Lagasse

Kids, Eat, Mine

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Him, Country, Attempt

I've seen too much in life to give up.
Al Sharpton

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek

Ignorance, Why, Facts

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Single, Glance, Istanbul

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore

Society, Real, Broken

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V. S. Naipaul

True, Ask, Unusual

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.
Rita Mae Brown

Life, Best, Writing

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman

Character, Someone, Together

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
Gary Oldman

School, Intuition, Drama

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.
Roger Ebert

Television, Paper, Opening

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Robert Herrick

Love, Heart, Loving

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
Jane Fonda

Love, Parents, Happen

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