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• I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.

  Neil Diamond

  Meds, Songwriting

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• I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Believe, Mystery, Wonder

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• This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.

  Luke Haines

  Grateful, Mean, Rocks

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• I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Smart, Moving, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Theme, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

  Bill Hader

  Audience, Best Things, Fronts

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fun, Writing, Class

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.

  Echo Bodine

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Consciousness, Provocative

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Believe, Thinking, Smoking

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• The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men

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• The essence of training is the experience of training and what you learn about yourself through it. Training is about the process. You will get there and there is one simple thing to do it. Consistency.

  Martyn Rooney

  Simple, Essence, Consistency

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• Where you are in life is exactly where you are supposed to be as a result of the things you have done up until that moment in time. To do anything else but accept your current situation would be crazy. The real thing to do is decide where you want to go, use both consistency and patience to get there and enjoy the ride. It is, after all, the path you have chosen in life.

  Martyn Rooney

  Crazy, Real, Consistency

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• As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

  Patrick Califia

  Commitment, Long, Interesting

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• I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Dresses

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• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

  Antony Gormley

  Beautiful, Art, Everyday

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• Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right thing to do.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Real, Fall, Heaven

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• Naturally the smart thing to do to solve your economic woes is to demonize the Democrats. And of course, Sarah Palin is more than happy to oblige. She's been saying that Obama hangs out with terrorists. And you know, I think the evangelical lady who's in a video getting blessed by a witch doctor, who's married to a secessionist, and can't name a newspaper -- she's right, Obama is scary.

  Bill Maher

  Smart, Blessed, Thinking

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• I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

  Helen Mirren

  Character, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Q&A: Helen Mirren and Nicholas Hytner". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. June 23, 2009.

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• A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Want, Facts

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• Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Dedication, Skills

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• Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Iran, Trying, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

  Mia Wasikowska

  People, Brave, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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