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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.

It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.

I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.