"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
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"I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it."
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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
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"I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done."
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"Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done."
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"The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go."
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"Man is immortal till his work is done."
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"I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does"."
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"Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan."
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"Simon had been all lined up and he’d managed to throw away the best girl he’d ever meet. “What a dumbass,” Beck muttered. “No way I’d have done that."
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"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest."
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"I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out."
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"We believe no evil till the evil's done"
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"Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]"
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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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"Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death."
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"We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers."
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"Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you"
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"And so this is Christmas...what have you done?"
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