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When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • World
  • Done
  • Want

• I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Job
  • Beauty

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Nice

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Done
  • Credit
  • Gotten

• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Up
  • Done
  • Experience

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
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  • Art
  • Me

• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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  • Done
  • Accountability

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• 'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Think
  • Want
  • Career

• American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • American
  • Amazing

• I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Risk

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Politics

• Today, Snoop Dog endorsed Ron Paul for president. Snoop said he likes Paul's positions on everything from legalizing pot ... to legalizing pot.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Dog
  • Positions

• When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

  

  Christopher Guest
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