My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There’s nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give. – Itzhak Perlman
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn’t even know they had. – Jon Stewart
Designis a revelation to me. It’s like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. – Geoffrey Beene
I was tortured fifteen times, that’s total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. – James Stockdale
The best thing is to go public only when you’re absolutely sure that’s the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on. – Jon Oringer
As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody – family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers – giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I’m the mouthpiece for the masses. – Jeff Ross
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there’s an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later. – Jason Calacanis
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen. – Jack Dorsey
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. – Joshua Chamberlain
Many of us, if pressed, would admit that we’d prefer a cash gift to another pair of pajamas or bestselling novel. But giving the green can make even the best of us uncomfortable – the etiquette is confusing, and those who relish picking out the perfect something can miss some of the fun. – Jean Chatzky
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial. – Jonathan Kozol
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve. – Jennifer Granholm
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers – not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It’s almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick. – James Franco
I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives. – John Bradshaw
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It’s intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. – John Ortberg
I don’t like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. – Juliette Binoche
The last thing I’m gonna do is, ‘This is dynamite!’ That’s not my gig, man. I love the mom-and-pop joints. I love giving them recognition, but I’m not gonna blow smoke. We walked out of locations; we’ve changed locations. – Guy Fieri
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food. – John Mackey
I’m disappointed that I really haven’t been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don’t regret giving this a go. – Ian Thorpe
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that. – J. Cole
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I’m gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. – Imelda Marcos
Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I’ve never knowingly met a stingy one. – Julie Burchill
All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
I’ve always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn’t use it anymore. – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing. – John D. Rockefeller
I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else. – Jon Oringer