Doing Quotes
18095 Doing quotes by 9089 unique authors
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I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what…
— Donna Fargo
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Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on…
— George F. Kennan
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little…
— Edward Abbey
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Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
— Richard Marx
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A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague…
— George Orwell
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Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
— George Washington
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There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.…
— Richard Avedon
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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though…
— Richard Avedon
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Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album…
— Phil Collins
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To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
— Michael Bolton
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I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what…
— Shania Twain
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
— Isaac Asimov
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing…
— Orson Scott Card
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In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the…
— John Hume
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The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.
— Sanford Meisner
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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
— Elliott Smith
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I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The…
— Elliott Smith
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Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the…
— Elliott Smith
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I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used…
— Adam Duritz
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
— Laura Marling
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
— Garry Trudeau
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