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• My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

  Boman Irani

  Children, Theory

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• I became a villain for doing the right thing.

  Tony Hayward

  Villain, Doing The Right Thing

  "Hayward Defends Tenure, BP Spill Response". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Creating, Humanity

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• If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

  Brit Hume

  Sorry, Mistake, People

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.

  Portia de Rossi

  Fun, Play, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

  Roseanne Barr

  Drug, Goes On, Stage

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.

  Brigid Schulte

  Believe, Optimistic, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Get Better, Efficiency, Wrong Things

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• Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Business, Passion

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• If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Inspire, Inspire Others, Ifs

  "Opportunity and Self-Transcendence" by Sri Chinmoy, (p. 21), 1977.

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• I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

  Hank Aaron

  Thinking, Idols, Games

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

  Theodore Levitt

  Littles, Matter, Improvement

  Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Tragedy, Important

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, World, Right Thing To Say

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

  Gordon Bethune

  Want, Failing, Results

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• As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

  Michael J. Fox

  Next

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  James Spader

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  The Olympian, October 04, 2005.

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• Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.

  Sharron Angle

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "Angle’s position on working families draws criticism" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.

  John Boehner

  Mean, America, Doe

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  Tony Blair

  Couple, War, Struggle

  BBC Question Time's election special programme, April 28, 2005.

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• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Children, Three

  "Angelina Breastfeeding: Pitt’s Private Photo And A New Interview", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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