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• I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Kids, Parent

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• Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, People, Priorities

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• How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

  Hiroko Sakai

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• Entrepreneurs don’t do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people and other things to do the work.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

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• I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

  Andrew Dost

  Thinking, Animal, Voice

  "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

  David Plotz

  Ideas, People, Just Being

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.

  David Plotz

  Grateful, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

  Jeremy Piven

  Climbing, Stage Actors, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important thing to do before you die is live.

  Simon Sinek

  Important, Dies, Important Things

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2010

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• I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Weight, Losing

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• The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

  Janet Reno

  Success, America, Justice

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

  Ai Weiwei

  Travel, Men, Desire

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Reading, Writing, School

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• The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.

  Marcus Garvey

  African American, World, Organized

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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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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• The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.

  Carol Kendall

  Smell, Best Things

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• Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Connections, Sometimes

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.180, Discovery House

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• There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

  Chuck Thompson

  Two, Drunk, Drink

  Chuck Thompson (2007). “Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Creating, Humanity

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• If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Watches, Television

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, People, Arabia

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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