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The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

Gao Xingjian

Way, Language, Cliche

"A Conversation with Gao Xingjian". Interview with David Der-Wei Wang, asiasociety.org.

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Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

George Darley

Suicide, Mean, Self

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In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.

Irving Sandler

Real, Copying, Way

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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

Marina Abramovic

Tango, Best Things

"Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

Alexander Elder

Successful, Thinking, Ice

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Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

Nick Lowe

Couple, Thinking, Self

Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.

Dwight Freeney

Sports, Winning, Nba

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What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Jack McDevitt

Dream, People, Chasing

Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.236, Penguin

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Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

Michael Mullen

Lying, Gay, Men

"HUMAN RIGHTS Army Interrogator Discharged For Being Gay: John McCain 'So Out Of Touch With Modern Military'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. February 4, 2010.

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The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Vincent Van Gogh

Trying, Way

Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

Neal Boortz

People, Negative, Hardest

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True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

Alice Cary

Dream, Kindness, Men

Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

Conan O'Brien

Thinking, Interviews, Kim

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When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.

David Letterman

Fun, Mistake, Years

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If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.

Arthur Mitchell

Thinking, Phones, Cells

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My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

Robin Williams

Meditation, Favorites Things, My Favorite

Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

Jack Kerouac

Thinking, Sick, Realization

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

PZ Myers

People, Half, Credibility

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Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

Ben Goldacre

Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

Anthony Bourdain

Drinking, Beer, Issues

"Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2013.

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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

Bruce Jenner

Sports, Exercise, People

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

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I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?

Brendan Fraser

Believe, Character, Thinking

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People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Baseball, Running

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