Things To Do Quotes - Page 37

• Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Science, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

  Art Buchwald

  Travel, Sleep, Good Friend

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• To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

  Nick Cave

  Years, Hatred, Difficult

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• It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Mom, Kids

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• It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

  Deborah Jowitt

  Dance, Beach, Sand

  Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine

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• Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Receiving, Guests

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Feels, Involved

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• It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

  Simon Le Bon

  Fashion, Regret, Pathetic

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• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Positive Thinking, Dying, Not Afraid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So cry if you need to but I can't stay to watch you It's the wrong thing to do

  Drake

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Watches

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• So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

  Bill Richardson

  Pain, Marijuana, Talking

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• I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

  Clive Palmer

  Responsibility, Thinking, Interest

  "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 07, 2009.

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• A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

  David Niven

  Running, Life And Love, Long

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  The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Hard Work, Grind

  FaceBook post by Ray Lewis from Apr 20, 2015

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• Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Simple

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• Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Important, Earth

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• Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.

  Steven Wilson

  Friendship, Children, Mistake

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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  "TIME" Magazine, December 29, 1975.

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• It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.70, Prometheus Books

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• And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Saint, Littles, Serving Others

  "The Brother Lawrence Collection".

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• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  Pablo Casals

  Life, Purpose, Firsts

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

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• When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Powerful, Simple, Choices

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• The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positivity, Giving

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