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• One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Feelings, Different

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.

  Ann Romney

  Answers, Good Things, Ends

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Independent, Giving, Doe

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Bats, Hardest

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• The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

  Michael Steele

  Mean, Black, Conservative

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• Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

  Brian Cox

  Moving, Hands, Theory

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• We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Smart, Simple

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• To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

  Wim Wenders

  Fun, Italian, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Shopping, Ideas

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

  Marlo Thomas

  Growing Up, People, Important

  "Marlo Thomas on her dad and why everyone needs to be free". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.businessinsider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

  James Clavell

  Stupid, Emotion, Stranger

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard." I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Missing, Dying

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

  Daniel Craig

  Looks, Computer, Internet

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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• It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.

  Kurt Russell

  Opportunity, Want, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

  Paul Feig

  Want, Critics, Hardest

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  School, Thinking, People

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• Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't walk outside, but we have the treadmill. And I walked eight miles at the ranch last weekend. Now I also lift weights, which is also great for bone strength. [Mrs. Bush mimes a biceps curl and laughs.] I'm very, very strong, actually.

  Laura Bush

  Strong, Weekend, Eight

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Acting, Levels, Exciting

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks DEADFALL, SONS OF ANARCHY Season 5, PACIFIC RIM, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for WB and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Space, Would Be

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

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• The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Sex, Names, Lasts

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• There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

  Wanda Sykes

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is hard directing. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. So, being a mother is very hard. I can absolutely see why there are so few women directing, because it's physically a very demanding thing to do. Fathers can only do it because they have wives at home doing all the other stuff. I can only do it because I have a husband that helps with the kids at home

  Gurinder Chadha

  Mother, Husband, Father

  "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Rain, Believe

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• Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

  Damian Marley

  Jamaica, Way, Violence

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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