I’ve never read for a movie, I’ve always been given them.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

If you’re going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I’m thankful that it hasn’t affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I’m lucky to be given the opportunities I’ve had.

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I’m not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

I’d like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

I’ve never lost anything, but I have given some things up.

I don’t think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he’s been given.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I’ve given everything that I’ve got.

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

What do you do with what you’re given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer ‘This can never end up in a book.’ And it never does.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish’s ‘Monster Blood Tattoo,’ in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There’s no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they’re not always given credit for that.

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

After all, it’s not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

It’s a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

I like to mumble when I act, ’cause I think it’s more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

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.

Nothing has been given to me.

I think kids are excited by language, and they’re not always given credit for that.

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.

Happiness earned, not given.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.

In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

Tennis has given me soul.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

The more you give, the less you need.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.