Things To Do Quotes - Page 17

• I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.

  T.C. Boyle

  Attitude, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Educational, People, Trying

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, Honest, Hardest

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Agency

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• Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

  Christopher Lee

  Comedy, Difficult, Difficult Things

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• When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Long, Immigration, Three

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• One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

  David Zaslav

  Voice, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• The most difficult thing to do is drama.

  Olivier Megaton

  Drama, Difficult, Difficult Things

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• Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Favorites Things, My Favorite

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Being Yourself, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It's not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it's going to continue to grow.

  Nick Youngquest

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves. I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves. Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It's not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it's going to continue to grow.

  Nick Youngquest

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

  James McBride

  Church, Lucky, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Difficult, Lightness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

  Paul Bettany

  Average, Cities, Nyc

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

  Ari Fleischer

  Dust, Settling, Right Thing

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

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• Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Emotional, Games, Feel Good

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• I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Long, President

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• Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

  Becky G

  Giving, Needs, Clothings

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

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• For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

  Gary Bartz

  Play, Sound, Individual

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• We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Running, Long, Be Kind

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

  Edward Snowden

  Sleep, Done, Alive

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that. If you want somebody who has a heart for people, who can fight for people, and can fix these things, then there are a couple other people, and I believe I'm the best one.

  Jeb Bush

  Couple, Motivation, Believe

  "Is White House taking responsibility for US casualty in ISIS raid?". October 26, 2015.

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