Done Quotes

• What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Cutting
  • Cat

• All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

  

  Ernest Poole
  • Real
  • Done
  • Village

• I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Done
  • Driving

• If you've done the work, done the training sessions, when you go into these games, you should feel ready. All you can ask is, 'Did you do your best, and try your best,' and then what happens, happens.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Work
  • Done
  • Training

• When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Havens

• I've won every title, and I've done everything in my division.

  

  Naseem Hamed
  • Done
  • Division
  • Title

• I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Done
  • Taken

• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Past
  • Oblivion

• To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Done

• We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Long
  • Sad
  • Impossible

• We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Done
  • Goal
  • Result

• By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Time
  • World
  • Period

• Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Challenges

• People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Done
  • Sorry

• The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

  

  George Will
  • People
  • Goal
  • Socialism

• The Congress, the executive branch, and our fellow citizens have done an enormous amount to support our troopers and their loved ones. And all of us are grateful for that.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Done
  • Support

• One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

  

  Lennie James
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Waiting
  • Tired
  • Wonderful

• People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Pretending

• I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Time
  • Done

• 'It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Justice

• You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show... I mean, I don't get a sense... to the extent that they're boycotting you, it's because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done

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