"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."
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"It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves."
"It ain't braggin' if you really done it."
"I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation."
"The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit."
"If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right."
"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
"Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done."
"I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world."
"If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people."
"A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way."
"Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'"
"Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it."
"He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation."
"But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen."
"Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment."
"Today anything can be done - we have the techniques"
"Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done."
"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."
"I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them."