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EVAN DANDO
Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ...
DEREK LANDY
just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON
You can't think; you just gotta do things.
FRANK OCEAN
theres gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but throug...
TUPAC SHAKUR
You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does ...
BURT SHAVITZ
Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Bec...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his at...
MAC DEMARCO
I open my eyes to see who I can truly be! Now I needa do me! Yea definitely. Its hard to tell the re...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA
When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
It's like going to the dentist. It's painful but you gotta do it because it makes you better.
MARK STINSON
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
CASEY STENGEL
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we ca...
CYBILL SHEPHERD
You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.
CLAUDIA GRAY
You gotta get up early in the morning to mess with me. I mean, I'm a businessman first-you gotta let...
LUDACRIS
You gotta do it on the field, not in the media.
DARRELL JACKSON
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
LILLIAN CARTER
You do not have to run with out a sigh, sometimes you gotta stay and have a break when you breath an...
MAHRUKH
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
CASEY STENGEL
Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY
When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE
You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put m...
RON PERLMAN
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
MIKE MYERS
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. ...
GEORGE W. BUSH
Women need to have Men as their Best friend, Because theres a Built-in competition between Women...
NASIR KHAN
Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing "Hospital". Sometimes I feel like playing "Pablo P...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
We slept in Central Park, which is no mean feat- we got there and it was almost dawn when we went to...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
If it was a five year-old asking me to do "Road Runner" I would have done it easy. But the same peop...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and tr...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em ...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
We rehearsed in the same place as Curt, so we saw him all the time and everything, but he wasn't in ...
JONATHAN RICHMAN
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born li...
MOLLY IVINS
I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.
CHARLES POLLOCK
...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention t...
LESLEY KAGEN
I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hol...
BUSTA RHYMES
You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you...
STEVEN CONRAD
You should do things that are right because they are the right thing to do, not because you many rec...
GREG JOHNSON
You just gotta sometimes think you're not going to go down like that, and you just gotta fight to th...
JASON GORE
Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa...
GORDON ATKINSON
When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on...
BRYCE HARPER
When it comes to basketball, it's not that hard. You gotta go out and play like you gotta play and l...
SHANNON BROWN
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you go...
ZAKK WYLDE
You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, ...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS
My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New...
DEAN WAREHAM
You gotta look up. The tournament is obviously in jeopardy, so if we want to be there, we just gotta...
ERIC DEVENDORF
You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's no...
JOAN RIVERS
Jonathan is just a joy to coach. Some great players you just tolerate. They stay apart from the rest...
MARCO ARMIJO
Sometimes you gotta do the small gigs to get the big gigs
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE
Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we ...
LARS ULRICH
I gotta be honest, I kinda like the idea of death. Because if I could live forever I'd probably neve...
VANDA M
Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever,...
TAJ MAHAL
You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
RACHEL MCADAMS
When you make a blame sandwich, you gotta be prepared to eat it yourself.
JUSTINE VOGT
It's been rough. I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's rough on everybody. We gotta do what we gott...
DAN MOONEY
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
RICHARD PRYOR
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
RICHARD PRYOR
When you're playing a team that's [this] tough, its not enough to come back within one. You gotta ta...
BUFF RADICK
See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do now."
"Yes, Mr. Cliche. I know...
PRISCILLA GLENN
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things...
SENECA
When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN
There are countries in Africa who also need our help, but were not there because theres no oil there...
JEFF WHITE
Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't nec...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND
I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go ba...
CONSTANCE WU
When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS...
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run
KENNY ROGERS
There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not...
JIMMY DEAN
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get...
DOLLY PARTON
I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
QUAVO
You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You c...
STEVEN ADLER
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I c...
MACAULAY CULKIN
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON
The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
QUAVO
I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a goo...
JIMMY PAGE
When you're running hot, there's an adrenaline rush to this. I've gotta get there. I've gotta get th...
JAMES SOLOMON
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath th...
BIBLE
Then you shouldn't have thrown her away when she was your wife. Now she ain't. Now she's somethin' t...
KRISTEN ASHLEY
I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP
I expect Jonathan to ascend that chart very rapidly because he's a tremendous athlete and he's shown...
MIKE BELLOTTI
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to...
KENNY ROGERS
Love is the root of all happiness and all sorrow and theres not much in between.
CHASE KITCHENS
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard ...
TRAVIS FIMMEL
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that at...
FREDDY ADU
Why are mortals always so eager to declare things impossible, anyway? It’s not like things do or d...
RACHEL AARON
Respect, honor and appreciate those who say thank you when you do something for them even they say t...
HLONIM
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d...
AGNES MARTIN
You have achieved true freedom when you are able to do more of the things you want to do than the th...
DANIEL OKE
It's a shame now when you drive by and look back there. You just say, 'Wow, you gotta be kidding! Yo...
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Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD
More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD
Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by...
JONATHAN KOZOL
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHAN KOZOL
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER
For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT