Doing Me Quotes

• If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

  Fiona Apple

  Believe, Belive, Touch Me

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• I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

  Tom Cochrane

  Joy

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• I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

  Thelonious Monk

  People, Knows

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• The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Ideas, Appeals, Thousand

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• It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Meaningless Things, Want, Imbalance

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• Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

  Tracey Ullman

  Important, Principles, Want

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• Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

  Nas

  Gangsta, Rapper, People

  "Nas Expiais Controversial Album Title, Denies Reports of Label Opposition" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2007.

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• I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

  Ione Skye

  Class, Bravery, Challenges

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• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Johnny Vegas

  Birthday, Party, Kids

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• I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Campaigns, Film

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

  Shannon Hale

  Son, Goes On, Bleeding

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Favour, Hunger, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?

  Suheir Hammad

  Father, Writing, Mean

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• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Steven Tyler

  Grateful, Drug, Aids

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  Young Buck

  Hood, Streets

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• Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Brother, Dad, Gold

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• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  Damien Hirst

  Looks, Answers, Faces

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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Odds, Perfect

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Helping

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• Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

  Harold Pinter

  Years, Doe, Literature

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

  Agnes Macphail

  Men, Feet, House

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• It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Stupid, One Liner

  "Pierce Brosnan Out as James Bond, 007". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2005.

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• I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

  Michelle Kwan

  Mean Girls, People, Goes On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

  Buck Owens

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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