The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
Before my accident I was a little too. . . selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this. . . say so!
In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.
Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.
You want your kids to have an opportunity. We`re going to fight to give you that.
Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions. . .
The whole idea of celebrity is flattering - it helps you get into restaurants and stuff - but once you obtain some creative fulfillment, which you do on a nightly basis as a comedian, it's hard to give that up just to be the wacky neighbor on a show.
A marriage. . . will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
We study there a lot because. . . what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
. . . and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute. That woman was so touchy about her resemblance to Hitler.
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.