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• In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

  William James

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  Tags in Dim, Doing

• So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

  Will Rogers

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• If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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  Tags in Worry, Doing, Time

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

  Warren Buffett

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• Even now, when I’m asked how I’m doing, I like to reply, ‘Pretty good. I’ve got all my fingers and both eyes.

  Charley Pride

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• But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

  Cheryl Tiegs

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• In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

  Charles Schumer

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• I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

  Charles Schumer

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• The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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• Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; And yet words are not deeds.

  William Shakespeare

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• It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  Carrie P. Snow

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• I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.

  Ted Turner

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  Tags in Guy, Doing, Today

• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

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• And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.

  Charlize Theron

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• And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

  Charlize Theron

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• I couldn’t do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can’t say they’re not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

  Christine Gregoire

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• Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

  Carter Burwell

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• I don’t want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I’m not interested in doing that anymore.

  Carrie Fisher

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• Edinburgh is my favourite city. We’ll be doing a lot of children’s theatre and galleries.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Theatre, Doing