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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get.


Michael Hintze
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.


Michel de Montaigne
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
Sam Simon
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.


Henri Bergson
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The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.


Thomas Dewar
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.


Rabindranath Tagore
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Alice Walker
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden
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The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.
Christopher McQuarrie
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No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
Marquis de Lafayette
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown
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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
Shimon Peres
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.


Max Beerbohm
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I still enjoy watching films more than making them.


Michael Winterbottom
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.


Charlie Watts
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.


Herodotus
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I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.


Gia Coppola
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!


Tennessee Williams
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