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“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Frederick Douglass
“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
James Dean
“I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.”
Bill Cosby
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
William Blake
“I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.”
David Bowie
“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”
David Bowie
“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”
Jon Stewart
“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.”
Steven Spielberg
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.”
Michael Jordan
“Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.”
Michael Jordan
“I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.”
Michael Jordan
“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”
Angelina Jolie
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
Jonathan Swift
“Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.”
Donald Trump
“So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.”
Donald Trump
“So much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
Oprah Winfrey
“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.”
Oprah Winfrey
“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
Walt Whitman
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”
Walt Whitman
“Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.”
Alan Watts
“I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.”
Adele
“I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.”
Adele
“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
John Adams
