Doing Quotes

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

~ Jim Cooper

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

~ Bob Ehrlich

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

~ Miranda Lambert

Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.

~ Lizzie Armitstead

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

~ Paul Farmer

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

~ Diane Ladd

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

~ Christiaan Barnard

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

~ John Le Carré

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

~ Eddie Rickenbacker

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

~ George Michael

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

~ Mary Gaitskill

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

~ Nick Clooney

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

~ James A. Michener

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

~ Paul Theroux

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

~ Ridley Scott

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

~ Zendaya

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

~ Brittany Snow

I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.

~ Paige Vanzant

The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.

~ Emraan Hashmi

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

~ Shaquille O'neal

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

~ Woody Allen

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

~ Matt Damon

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'

~ Cliff Burton

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

~ Grant Show

I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

~ Rick Moranis

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

~ Jonathan Levine

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

~ Heath Ledger

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

~ Hulk Hogan

I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.

~ Sinbad

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

~ Evan Bayh

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

~ George Eliot

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

~ J. J. Abrams

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

~ Donald Norman

The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source?

~ Rihanna

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

~ Michael Graves

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

~ Louis Theroux

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

~ Queen Latifah