Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable."
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Things To Do
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Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
Confucius
Philosopher
"To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice."
Sean Parker
Entrepreneur
"It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on."
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself."
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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
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"The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them."
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"The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on"
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"Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship."
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"Quitting is the easiest thing to do."
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"I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power."
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"The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that."
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"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."
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"If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it."
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"I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God."
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"Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do."
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"I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own."
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"Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do."
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"The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have."
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"The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live."
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"The most important thing to do before you die is live."
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"The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money."
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"Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not."
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"Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult."
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"There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do."
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