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• The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

  Bill Hader

  Audience, Best Things, Fronts

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fun, Writing, Class

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Consciousness, Provocative

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Where you are in life is exactly where you are supposed to be as a result of the things you have done up until that moment in time. To do anything else but accept your current situation would be crazy. The real thing to do is decide where you want to go, use both consistency and patience to get there and enjoy the ride. It is, after all, the path you have chosen in life.

  Martyn Rooney

  Crazy, Real, Consistency

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• As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

  Patrick Califia

  Commitment, Long, Interesting

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• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

  Antony Gormley

  Beautiful, Art, Everyday

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• Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right thing to do.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Real, Fall, Heaven

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• A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Want, Facts

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• Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Dedication, Skills

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• Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

  Mia Wasikowska

  People, Brave, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

  Alex Kozinski

  Smart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Inspirational, Expression, Sometimes

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• Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Use, Procrastinating

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  Eddie Marsan

  Hard Work, Simple, Asking Questions

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2010.

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

  Bruce Sterling

  Success, Jobs, People

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• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

  David Hare

  Gun, Car, Faces

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• This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sexy, Humorous

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• When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

  John Cleese

  Advice, Firsts, Raspberries

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Reucassel

  Running, Fighting, Scum Of The Earth

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• Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Senior, Smart, Boards

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• One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

  Scott Baio

  Country, Nice, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Trying, Energy, Said

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• So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Winning, Simple, Important

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