I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy
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Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
Bradley A. Smith
TimeMoneyCompetitionGivingWinner
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
Fred Melamed
GreatGiftGivingEnjoyChristmas
After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
Ted Deutch
LifeSupportGivingStopDecade
Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving ammunition to right-wing Islamophobes.
Mona Eltahawy
WomenCommunityMenSpeakGivingUs
What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
Mariel Hemingway
MeGivingReactWayRealBecause
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
Neil Gaiman
LiveEmpathyWorldBelieveGiving
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
Caitlyn Jenner
HateMeStartProblemsGivingUp
My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.
Michael Hintze
BusinessGivingGoingKeeping
My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.
Bonnie Bassler
TimeJobAmazingMeGivingSomeone
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
Emmeline Pankhurst
WomenPowerMenPoliticalGiving
Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.
Valerie Harper
PastGivingWishGiving UpGoUp
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
Miriam Margolyes
SpaceGivingFindingEnjoyMeasure
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
Marissa Mayer
ResponsibilityMeManagementGiving
I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.
Marc Benioff
ThinkGivingYouFindWantOut
I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
Aaron Sorkin
EducationGoodPeopleGivingProblem
I've totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.
Metta World Peace
GodMeEgoGivingEverything
In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
WritingGivingYouTelevisionWant
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
Emma Donoghue
HabitSpaceBookGivingHousing
Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.
Tara Stiles
TimeSweetDirectionGivingBack
One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.
Lukas Haas
BestDaySchoolMeWorldGiving
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus
MoneyWomanPeopleFreeGivingSell
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
Laurie Colwin
FoodCookingSafetyGiftGiving
When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
VisionConstitutionGivingParty
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