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Doing Quotes (page 181)

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty . Leonard Cohen
We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents. Erica Jong
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. Federico Fellini
There's terrible evil in the world."It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. Richard Adams
Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973: Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. U. S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer. Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. Mao Zedong
I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really. Ray Bradbury
Jane Austen quote: "Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. Jane Austen
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. William S. Burroughs
Evan Esar quote: "We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do..."
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth. Evan Esar
I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy quote: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what can you do..."
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what can you do for your country. John F. Kennedy
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Mahatma Gandhi
Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and... Edward Said
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is..."
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter P. G. Wodehouse

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