Right Thing Quotes - Page 23

• When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

  Howard Fineman

  Iraq, People, Hussein

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• When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

  Luis Fortuno

  Office, Littles, Down The Road

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• There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

  Eve Hewson

  Auditions, Study, Could Have Been

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

  Neil Jordan

  Nice, Long, Hollywood

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• I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

  Thomas Jane

  People, Knows

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• Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

  Jon Krakauer

  Aliens, Environment, Minutes

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• While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Needs, Firsts

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• All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Sky, Together

  Song: Get On The Right Thing, Album: Red Rose Speedway

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• I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

  Steve Madden

  Shoes, Trouble, Natural

  "Milestone: Q&A With Steve Madden". Interview with Neil Weilheimer, footwearnews.com. February 22, 2010.

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• It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

  Sean Parker

  People, Problem, Things To Do

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Prize Money, Australia

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

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Noble

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

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• Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Germany

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• And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

  Chris Terrio

  Thinking, Organization, Sometimes

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. Ocotber 15, 2012.

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• Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

  Ratan Tata

  Simple, Legacy, Ethics

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• I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

  Ratan Tata

  Hurt, People, Done

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• And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team

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• History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

  Michael Moritz

  Passion, Reform, Betrayed

  "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

  George W. Jenkins

  Way, Profit, Doing The Right Thing

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• The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Differences, People, Work Out

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

  John Ortberg

  People, Way, Reason

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Character, Kind, Forget

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• What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

  Grant Heslov

  Years, Long, Three

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