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. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.

As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it's all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I don't like computers. I use them for writing because I have to. I have never had a conversation about computers in my life.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Senior year is supposed to be about being mentally done.

Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. Most Americans live their lives that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often it's something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things get done every day that are only made possible by the little, reasonable compromises.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.