I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

There's so many other things that I can do with my time besides just worry about what the next man is doing, ya feel me?

There is no secret. It is all about doing the same things time and time again. It is all about doing the best every day.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough to stop me from doing it.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I have crazy, curly, big hair, so,if I have time to try to make myself look presentable, I usually spend it doing my hair.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

When I pull up to music videos, I'm like, 'I've been doing 11-hour days since I was eight-years-old, so I'm not tripping.'

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

I tread lightly with social media. I don't dislike it. I'm just not sure what I'm doing, and I'm a somewhat private person.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - that's important. Don't follow what other people are doing.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

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