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My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

Ive seen it all, done it all, known it all.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It's hot. I don't ever want to be size zero.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece