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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
Alexander Payne

Hope, Able, Despair

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
Nathan Fillion

Cool, After, Deal

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat

Life, Power, Him

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Ina Garten

Morning, Pleasure, Garden

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare

Feeling, Indeed, Solution

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare

Happy, Once, Word

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George

Him, Call, Master

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.
Cat Deeley

Love, Confidence, Friend

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!
Cat Deeley

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.
Cat Deeley

Love, Family, Confidence

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten

Birth, Benefits, Expects

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
Wayne Brady

Mom, Fight, Play

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom

Rock, Children, Parents

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
Wynton Marsalis

Perfect, Ready, King

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe

Mind, Culture, Ability

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
Wilbur Smith

Power, Writing, Sense

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
Wilbur Smith

Time, Books, Gold

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Jose Marti

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
Steve Nash

Love, Crazy, Confidence

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
David Miliband

Politics, Simple, Confidence

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones

Nature, God, Yourself

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Pierre Loti

True, Real, Sometimes

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
Ethel Merman

Someone, Gossip, Book

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
Kenneth Branagh

Sometimes, Lucky, Careers

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.
Dexter Gordon

Happy, Times, Hear

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell

Love, God, Wisdom

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately

Children, Giving, Industry

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
Leland Stanford

Money, Power, Best

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson

Legal, Within, Outside

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
Dave Matthews

Time, Long, Real

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