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I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

It pleases me that people can be interactive

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

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.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

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.

I work to please myself. I'm still not sure if movies are an art form. And if they're not, then let them inscribe on my tombstone what they could about any craftsman who loves his job: "Here lies Vincente Minnelli. He died of hard work.

I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?   He said please dont say in Church. Thats where I learned to sing.Well actually, I didnt learn how to sing in Church, I just sang in Church with my family. My family was quite musical. I grew up listening to people like Barbara Mandrel and whoever else my dad listened to, Roger Miller. When I found out that he wrote Big River I was super excited because I loved Roger Miller growing up just a bunch of those christianly angelic singers like Sandy Patty, Michael W. Smith, you know all those people. Thats where I got my influence.

I was really please with the effort. Nobody expected us to take this type of team to overtime on their home floor.

I would be surprised if there were significant appreciation. Whatever the premium is, three or four points ... because 85 percent of the company is still going to be coming, there is not much they can do to please the public on the upside.

I wouldn't call it insignificant and it was directly in response to public input. While we can't please everybody, we have to serve everybody.

My goal is not to please the coin world.

My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.

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

O Lord God, You are the One and Only Giver; You forgive us, and unite us with Yourself. Servant Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary; if it is Your Will, please save him!

O Lord, Life of the World, please shower me with Your Mercy; grant me the Sanctuary of the Guru

O men, the one who enhance their strength, please bless us with knowledge of all kinds.

O my Lord, these are my lowly actions, O my Lord. O Lord, Har, Har, Treasure of Virtue, Merciful Lord, please bless me with Your Grace and forgive me for all my mistakes.

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.

Please remember we're talking about a test that we agree to do that we do on our own. It's not a required test. That's a very, very severe test. It's a high-speed test, it's designed to take tires right up to their limits, ... If we don't have tires that fail tests, then what value are they?

Please say something about how much we appreciate the cooperation of the sheriff's office, the search and rescue teams and all the volunteers. I'd come home at night, but I spent two weeks up there. It's a rugged area.

Please see a United representative at the airport to check in.' I'm flying with a presumed terrorist. I guess that's why.

please stay put where they're at, as long as they have a roof over their head and food.

Please suspend your business and work for three hours to spend time in prayer for the dead and the survivors of the unforgettable calamity that visited our brethren.

Please swallow your pride If I have things you need to borrow For no one can fill those of your needs That you won't let show.

Please take it easy and be patient on the roads,

Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.

Please tell him that we are so very proud of him. And I don't even know how he did today.

Please tell the police if they want to arrest us, just issue a warrant since I am not running away.

Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go f*** themselves.

Please think about national security, ... People are coming across our borders to do very bad things to us.

Please understand how close this really is. One bad decision, and, literally, things could go 180 degrees in the other direction. Life changing forever. . . . We don't often think about that at the party.

Please utilize our services and knowledge to assist you and your loved one living with Alzheimer's in managing this disease process hand in hand to ensure continuity of a meaningful life.

Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.

PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.

No coach is perfect. You can't please everybody.

Neither side wanted that to happen we didn't want any patient we didn't want any anthem member to be disrupted in any way and so we're please that all of that has been avoided.

NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.

Obviously, there are some very strong feelings here. The town board requested the state make a presentation to better see and hear the proposal. Please don't get argumentative.

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

I have chatted with Ralph and we need to get the funding moving on the effort in the 10 congressional districts, ... Please get me a check as soon as possible for $150,000 made payable to American Marketing Inc. This is the company Ralph is using.

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'

If they were going to rally behind me now, they should have rallied behind me a month ago, I'm just joking about that. Please don't write that. It's just a joke.

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

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.

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.

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Mom, if you're watching, please come here, come to the station. Call the police. We just want to talk to you to see what happened, if it was an accident or not.

Since some of the exhibits will feature live animals, we are asking visitors to please leave their own pets at home.

Most people know who's billing them so they know who to call in an emergency. We feel privileged to serve the people we do and we want to please them.

May God bless the people of Jordan during this difficult time. Please know the American people join you in prayer and spirit,

May it please the court, I am not guilty,

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

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.

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.

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.

She wrote to Dr. Green or Dr. Scott he was confused and asked for a phone number so they could talk about the details, ... He never calls and he never sends a phone number, but asks her to please bear with him because things are delicate.

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,

She's my only daughter, please help us find her one way or another.

(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?

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 was physically forgottenThen she slipped into my pocketWith my car keysShe said you've taken me for grantedBecause I please you

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

The way to rise is to obey and 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 moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would please me more.

Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot while handling firearms or explosives -- if that is the case, could he please tell me why they were shot?

If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.

I am somewhat nervous about this meeting, ... But I will just present the truth of my two accusations. Please pray for me.

I am thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children, ... I did my time in prison and moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.

I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.