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• Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.

  Allen Carr

  Stupid, Want, Rest Of Your Life

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• I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Needs, Succeed, Tough

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• Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Art, Belief

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Inspirational, Expression, Sometimes

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• Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Use, Procrastinating

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Missing, Mind

  'A Grammarian's Funeral' (1855) l. 113

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• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  Eddie Marsan

  Hard Work, Simple, Asking Questions

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2010.

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

  Bruce Sterling

  Success, Jobs, People

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• There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

  David Hare

  Gun, Car, Faces

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• This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sexy, Humorous

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• You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Wall, Clever, Mistake

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• When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

  John Cleese

  Advice, Firsts, Raspberries

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• If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Kids, Stronger, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

  Juliette Binoche

  Actors, Easy, Felt

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• I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

  Max Greenfield

  Favorites Things, My Favorite, Tweet

  "The GQA: Max Greenfield". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. January 10, 2011.

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Reucassel

  Running, Fighting, Scum Of The Earth

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• I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

  Maria Bello

  Selfish, World, Actresses

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• Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Senior, Smart, Boards

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• One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

  Scott Baio

  Country, Nice, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Tuxedos, Firsts

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• My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

  Carson Kressley

  Thinking, Helping Someone, People

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

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• My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Trying, Energy, Said

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