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• I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.

  Anna Faris

  Fun, Thinking, Skills

  Source: collider.com

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• Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, Reality

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• While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

  Diana DeGette

  Strength, Ebola, Years

  "Does the US drug approval process need an overhaul?" by Lacie Glover, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2015.

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Opportunity, Calling

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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• It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

  Kurt Loder

  People, Covering, Literature

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• The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

  Andy Garcia

  Hands, Interesting, Decision

  "Smokin' Aces - Andy Garcia interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Unique, Priorities In Life

  "Inside 'Cosmos': Q&A with Host Neil deGrasse Tyson". Interview with Megan Gannon, www.space.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Needs, Purpose, Littles

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• People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music, I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

  Nick Cannon

  Mean, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.

  Christopher Durang

  Country, Successful, Thinking

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• It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Assuming, Coarse, Endeavor

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg”, p.233, New Directions Publishing

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• I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Thinking, Choices, Turns

  "Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

  David Plouffe

  Teacher, Jobs, Games

  "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

  Walt Disney

  Emotional, Listening, Kind

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• Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Looks, Problem

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• Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

  Criss Jami

  Skills, Looks, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

  Anna Olson

  Giving, Anxiety, Credit

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• Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Strategy, Missions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

  Margot Asquith

  Genius, Talent, Can Do

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

  Brennan Manning

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.103, Multnomah

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• There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.

  Robert Coover

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

  Devra Davis

  Phones, Radical, Turns

  Source: www.salon.com

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• With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.

  LeVar Burton

  Technology, America, Land

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. August 4, 2012.

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• My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

  Pam Grier

  Men, Feminist, Grandfather

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Stars, Night, Shooting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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