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I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects. Paul Auster

Life, Good, Live, My Life, Enough, Want

I do not subscribe to the 'Trump is crazy like a fox' thing. I think that's being too generous. Valerie Plame

Crazy, Think, Fox, Like, Being, I Think

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged. Dee Dee Myers

Work, Succeed, Work Hard, People, Rich

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. Henry Cabot Lodge

Freedom, Great, Strong, Fall, She, You

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit. Charlie Trotter

Say, Spirit, Project, Because, Yes, Any

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn. Nicholas Negroponte

Best, Giving, Building, Environment, Way

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature. Emmylou Harris

Nature, Good, Think, Musicians, Kind

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer. Lena Waithe

Be Kind, Woman, Black, You, Sometimes

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. Martin Jacques

War, World, True, Kind, Defeat, Apology

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. Hank Azaria

Easy, Always, Comedians, Impressive

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate. Greg Behrendt

Me, People, Think, Numbers, Follow, Fan

It's shameful to admit, but it's been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I'm as good as it gets. I'm honourable, kind, friendly, warm, intelligent, generous, and I've got a good sense of humour. Miriam Margolyes

Good, Feel, Kind, Intelligent, Admit

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. Sydney Smith

Good, Shame, Virtue, Ready, Always, Just

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all. Pamela Stephenson

Myself, Mind, Think, Enough, Forward

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus. Barbara Ehrenreich

Justice, Poverty, Talking, Living, Dead

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. Richard Le Gallienne

Love, World, Growing, See, More, Only

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Doing, Help, Someone, Understand, Way

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders. Eric Metaxas

Caring, World, Nation, Outside, Always

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way. Charlie Kaufman

Myself, Me, People, Artist, Want, Way

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting. Camille Claudel

Women, Man, Me, Woman, Black, Help

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate! Joanna Trollope

Kindness, Home, Great, Welcome, Edge

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. George Saunders

Intelligence, Generation, Lucky, Same

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. Frances Wright

Man, Heart, Progress, Competition, Edge

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change. Meir Soloveichik

Life, Change, Experience, Generation

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. Jilly Cooper

Nature, Man, Think, Cook, Who, I Think

You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it. Ehud Barak

Support, You, Need, Israel, Keep, Get

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