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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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• I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.

  Conrad Aiken

  Mean, Writing, Exercise

  "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.

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• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  Ursula Burns

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

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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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• 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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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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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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  There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

  Edward Heath

  Wise, People, House

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• I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Saws, Helping, Obvious

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.186, Penguin

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• The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, People, Drink

  Elizabeth Taylor (2015). “A View of the Harbour”, p.86, New York Review of Books

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• Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Reality, Order, Religion

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• The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

  Carol Mann

  Heart, Golf, Swings

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• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  Carla Bley

  Music, Teacher, Listening

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• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  Ursula Andress

  Thinking, Age, Time To Think

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, edition.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessing, Thinking, Clouds

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• Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  World, Want, Made

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Investing, Right Thing

  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tim Kaine (2016). “Stronger Together”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Commitment, Generosity, Giving

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

  Henry Ford

  Important

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• When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them confess their sins and find forgiveness in Christ, and then welcome them back into the fellowship of the church.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Christian, Church, Needs

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• The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

  Adyashanti

  Looks, May, Easy

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• And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Teaching, Mean

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  Katie Noonan

  Art, Skills, People

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