Quotes with well-doing

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  • Allan Carr I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Margaret Mead I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Bill Bailey I was digging with a fork out of the kitchen drawer sewing tictacs, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. After a bit I got bored and just started burying cheap spoons to baffle the archaeologists of the future
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Ellen DeGeneres I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.''
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Paul E. Little I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Abraham Lincoln I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jane Austen I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Andy Warhol I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bernard Beckett I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Goldie Hawn I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
    Goldie Hawn
    American actress (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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