Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.
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Related It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working. SHANIA TWAIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Just because you do something stupid, it doesn't mean you're stupid. ANDREW WORKMAN Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to do something with it. NANETTE VONNEGUT 148She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to you have to do something wi... NANETTE VONNEGUT Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge t... KATY PERRY Don't lie to yourself? SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou... SOMETHING CORPORATE It just feels great to come out to the ballpark and have every game mean something. CARLOS BELTRAN You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d... THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE Again, a funny question. I said to you that Rubens is with us until the 31st of December, so does th... JEAN TODT The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once... NORMAN ROCKWELL Just to get everybody fired up for the season. It's a lot of fun. It gives guys something to do and ... LANCE COBBLE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good. ALEX FLINN Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN ...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have ... MORGAN MATSON Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply... PALOMA PICASSO Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ... JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY It was a very good game by two very good teams. We just manufactured some runs and just put somethin... TOM ANDERSON I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ... VANESSA BROWN When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say ... JOHN LEWIS One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation w... NOLAN RYAN We're not very old. That's the thing that excites me is we're not very old. The girls think of golf ... ANDY HALLETT Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play int... DYLAN O'BRIEN I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play int... DYLAN O'BRIEN In a rebuilding situation like we're in, that's a good position to be in. That's not to say somethin... BILLY KNIGHT Every game we went away on, they had something for me, just to let me know I did something stupid. JASON BERRYMAN I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new plac... SARA BAREILLES Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is ... VERONICA ROTH Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I k... KATIE MCGARRY You have to do something like that. I mean, if you just stand there and don't do anything, I think s... D.J. TRAHAN I find myself in social situations often where I think of a response to something someone has just s... CASPAR VEGA They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER I'd rather have a bad day doing something I like than have a bad day doing something I don't like. W... HORACE BROADNAX As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and ... DANIEL DENNETT I just wanted to keep myself busy doing something and do something special for them. ... I guess it ... BETTY RODDAM You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold... VIN DIESEL Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped t... LAUREN OLIVER Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the... TRAVIS SCOTT I'm not going to be a lobbyist, but an educator. You just stop doing something to do something else. DANNY LYONS You have to wrestle smart. You can't just go out and try a new move. You have to do something consta... ASTIN VILLARREAL It just made a lot of sense, and obviously it's fun to have something in the race. BILL FARISH Show interest in ALL people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel importa... BO BENNETT She came out and said, 'Can I hug you?' That just makes me feel so good. Like I'm doing something ri... EVE JOHNSON Sometimes all I have to do is get them started and I can sit back and watch. Some have really develo... EVA LAWSON If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making i... JAMES CAMERON As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is s... SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN Every time you experiment with something, every time you've tried something, you can cross that off.... MARKUS ZUSAK It's just something else to have fun with. ROBERT BURKE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a p... MARK LEYNER You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it jus... JULIA HOBAN Discover the delights of innovation & dream, you have yet not discovered.The future belongs to those... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Dare to dream. Don’t just let your dreams sit in your mind and rot. If you have a big dream or vis... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Oh my goodness, I never thought I'd ever be here in my whole life. I'm just trying to matter and liv... REESE WITHERSPOON You could just see something. I get in the sled and I actually go down with some of our new drivers,... BILL TAVARES If its clear that you are doing right thing, just go ahead. But answer yourself first before doing s... GIRIDHAR ALWAR The best way to celebrate your freedom is to LIVE it! Be you. Be free. Don’t just make freedom som... STEVE MARABOLI So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something... MIKE DITKA That wasn't something I was very proud of. It was just stupid. I got caught up in the moment. ANDREW PETERS I feel like I've accomplished something and I'm doing this just for the fun of it. BARRY WYLIE It was just something that I just cherished and loved to do. LEBRON JAMES When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to ... GRIMES Smile. Give Earth the biggest smile you've got. See every glimmer of light in the scariest, darkest ... LANA M. H. WILDER It's just something you have to do. BOB REYNOLDS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phon... LOUIS C. K. Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, excep... NICOLAS ROEG Dare to dream, dare to love, and dare to live. DEBASISH MRIDHA Rather than just doing something for myself, I thought I'd do something to help other people. AYSHIA WELSH We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, un... JAY WOODMAN "What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't?" "Like what?" "Like if you were... C. JOYBELL C. You dont have to live forever just live. NATALIE BABBITT Local casting is just something I love doing. BENH ZEITLIN He likes to talk out there, he's real intense. I knew he was going to do something stupid, and he di... BRIAN DEVLIN Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and ... JOYCE MEYER Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient. AULIQ ICE the human mind is very powerful, people always say they CANT do something but if they believe in the... MIKE GRIST
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