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• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  Abbe Pierre

  Zoos, Heart, Fighting

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• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

  Bonnie Blair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

  Clancy Brown

  Jobs, Couple, Thinking

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

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• Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

  Jared Harris

  Regret, I Regret, Involved

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• Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

  Harvey Keitel

  People, Way, Interviews

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• Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Confidence, Surprise

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

  Dennis Muren

  Want, Stuff, World

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• The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Mit, Research

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• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Idle, Has Beens

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Benefits, Charity

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  Napoleon Hill

  Business, Procrastination, Should Have

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.28, Penguin

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• Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; ... shame says I am no good.

  John Bradshaw

  Mistake, Umpires, Guilt

  John Bradshaw (1988). “Bradshaw On--The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery”, Hci

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• You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Priorities, Needs, Faster

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• Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Fear

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

  Maya Angelou

  Late, Convinced

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

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• I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

  Norman Lamm

  Moving, Errors, Government

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• Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

  Peter Sotos

  Art, Thinking, Littles

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Ocean, Weather, Space

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• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  Barry Watson

  Son, Thinking, Trying

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

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• But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

  Aaron Spelling

  Television, World, Rating

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• Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Persistence, Married

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