"The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version."
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"I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something."
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"People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21."
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"No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience"
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"To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism."
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"If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong."
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"Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?"
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"We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire."
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"When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before."
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"Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?"
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"Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington."
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"Let me be the one To do what is done."
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"The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment."
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"People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me."
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"Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done."
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"I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it."
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"It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done."
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"Whatever can be done, can be undone."
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"Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions."
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"I know what happiness is, for I have done good work."
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