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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

Bernie Mac is relentless. That's one thing I like about him. He's not PC. He doesn't care what you think. He's going out there to please that audience.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

We are please with every aspect of our curriculum,

We are please to have this feature completed. This feature will help us get a true sense of what our members prefer to use in caring for their pets. The feature will also allow First Pet Life to track the most popular products and offer those products to our members at cheaper rates.

We are looking into whether there were other incidents as well. Certainly if there are others who have information, we'd ask them to please come forward.

We believe that our product is the only one that will please an audiophile.

There are definitely high expectations of him, he is saying the right thing, trying to please everybody. But the proof is in the pudding.

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,Who please one against his Will.

We strongly urge people if you do not have to get out, please stay at home.

W e still need poll workers and anyone who is mentally and physically capable of doing this job please call voter registration and offer your services .

We spent millions on this. The taxpayers trusted us. Bringing people in here who can't see questions our credibility. We need to please the people who sit in the seats.

We're not going to please everyone and we know that. Sam Walton had said you shouldn't worry about what's written in the newspaper. You should focus on the customer. At the same time, we also need to tell our story better.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.

Was this a preventable explosion? Did our dad have to die? These are just a few of the questions I have. Please do not leave any stone unturned. Twelve men, good family men, lost their lives, and we deserve answers to our questions.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

What we're looking for is happiness, and in all our searching who do we forget? Ourselves. Whatever the equation is that you have created, please include yourself in it, because without you, without your heart, without peace in your life, there can never be peace in the world.

What he is is a caring, devout Muslim. Please don't view every single suspicious fact as evidence of being part of a conspiracy to murder his fellow Americans.

Usually I come into the office and say, 'Will someone please time the last three minutes of this game that took 22 minutes and tell me why? I'm not sure that we're showing our fans our best basketball.

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Through countless lifetimes and incarnations, I was separated from Him. O Lord, you are my Friend and Companion - please unite me with Yourself.

We know you're running out to the gas station to fill up and fill up your cans for your generators. Please just remember your neighbor needs this just as well, ... Let's not overdo it. You need to do what you need to do, but there's no panic necessary here.

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.

Ultimately, no matter how many projects you considered, you can't please everyone.

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Would you please just give in and let the baby go, give her a chance at life. There's a better way out of this.

Would be nice even I can get it back, you know. Whoever get 'em please no questions ask, just give me 'em back if can.

We're saying please coordinate with the state. It's not that we don't think this help is important.

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Please don't stand up on my account.

Women need to realize that jogging clothes are for exercise, and please don't wear black to weddings, y'all. Men, please don't wear shorts with your hairy legs sticking out. It is okay for sports or intimate situations.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but ...

I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

Please clean up after your dogma.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

There are faces to each and every one of these dollars that is getting taken away from us. There is a lifetime that may get ruined. Today, we're here to say no to the budget cuts and to say please give us our money back.

There are elements to the story that, if handled well, can help improve the way the public perceives the press. The other thing is that the press is doing a bunch of things that are new. They are reading e-mails, saying, 'I am looking for my nephew ... so-and-so, if you can hear me, please call.' That's community journalism on a national scale and I think that will go a long way to demonstrate that the press is doing more than just thrill seeking.

We're asking for the public that if anybody shows up with a large amount of jewelry somewhere and they get suspicious, please contact us and give us as much information as possible.

We're asking anyone with evidence to please step forward,

When I walked into the locker room, everybody said I had to stop sliding headfirst. Before I even got in there, they were telling me, 'Would you please stop?' Even American League guys were saying that. Vernon Wells said, 'Please stop sliding headfirst.' They all love the enthusiasm and intensity I show.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain.

Let me be very clear. When the decision was made that there would be no type of extension offer, I felt very strongly that it was time to move on. In the midst of (a conference call with reporters), the phone at the other end of my house rang and a message was left. Please call.

Lots of us bought houses here because we thought all of this would be housing. It's a good neighborhood, it's quiet and now you want to add 90 to 100 apartments to it. If there's anything we can do to buy time, please let us do so.

Love is in the air; oh, please let me breathe!

Many people who buy at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas are second-home buyers. This type of purchase is ideal for them because they can purchase a unit, use it as they please and rent if out when they're not using it. The buyers are able to enjoy all of the amenities and services Trump has to offer without anything to worry about.

Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics,

So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

(She) told me that her car had broken down three and a half blocks down. She really needed help. Could she please use my phone?