Things To Do Quotes - Page 16

• There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

  Ryan Lindley

  Illegal, Contrary, Property

  In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  Gary Kemp

  Stars, Dad, Book

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• The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

  Ralph Ellison

  Exploits

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

  Paul Watson

  Fighting, Warrior, Odds

  "Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd's stern 'warrior' defies Japanese whalers" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

  Jon Bernthal

  Reading, Thinking, Russia

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

  Hector Elizondo

  Speaks French, Accents, Difficult

  "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

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• The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

  Kurt Fuller

  Cutting, Want, Drink

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

  Michael Ian Black

  Stupid, People, Reminiscing

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  People, Laughing, Favorites Things

  "Miranda Cosgrove Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Giving, Trouble

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• I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Income, Firsts

  "Word travel with Steve Toltz". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2008.

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• The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.

  Wally Olins

  Style, Trying, Requirements

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• I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

  Alex Turner

  People, Freak, Wanted

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Powerful, Successful, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  "The Guardian - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

  Forest Whitaker

  Jobs, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Powerful, Clever, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Smart, Creativity, Priorities

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 29, 2007.

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Singing, Heartbreaking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

  Steven Spielberg

  Animal, Intellectual, Reason

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

  Martin Luther

  Today, Dare, Time With God

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• The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

  Mason Cooley

  Opinion, Youth, Young

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• The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Games, Cities, Errors

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• Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Simplicity, Brain

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• I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama Compares Iran Deal To A House Under Contract, Awaiting Appraisal". "The Two-Way" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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