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• I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, People, Mind

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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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• We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Extra Time, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Artist, Men, Supposing That

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Use, Wells

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.906, Simon and Schuster

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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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• To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

  Robert Fulghum

  Empowering, Fairy Tale, Reaching

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.43, Ivy Books

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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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• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Thinking, Squares

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• Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  World, Being The Best, Mechanic

  "In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro". "PBS Newshour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. September 15, 2010.

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• In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Powerful, Nice

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Fighting, Boys

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't it more that is required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth through power.

  Teresa Heinz

  Lonely, Believe, Land

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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• Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

  Jack McDevitt

  Dream, People, Chasing

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.236, Penguin

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• Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

  Michael Mullen

  Lying, Gay, Men

  "HUMAN RIGHTS Army Interrogator Discharged For Being Gay: John McCain 'So Out Of Touch With Modern Military'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. February 4, 2010.

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• Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Interviews, Kim

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• When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.

  David Letterman

  Fun, Mistake, Years

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• My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

  Robin Williams

  Meditation, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sick, Realization

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Issues

  "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Exercise, People

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

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• People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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