I Quotes
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“I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.”
“I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.”
“I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.”
“I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.”
“I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.”
“I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.”
“I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.”
“I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.”
Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait
“I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.”
“I have done here on earth that was necessary to be done, no matter what my expression or application and now I continue to live here in the dimensions where I'm experiencing/expressing a deeper level of understanding and awareness of my reason and purpose here on earth, which is wonderful and for which I am grateful for.”
“I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.”
“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I have done it,' she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
'Go,' she says. 'He waits for you.'
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation, and it's a very different experience. You're trying to honor the writer. You shouldn't allow yourself, for example, to encounter a sentence that's three lines long and break it up into four smaller sentences.”
“I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.”
“I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.”
Source: I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god
“I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.”
“I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.”
“I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner.”
“I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“I have done much more dramatic work than comedic work, but I think comedy is harder than drama in a way. I think it's one of those things that's constantly discussed - people who do comedy think it's harder, people who do drama think it's harder. Usually drama is the one that gets this highbrow respect.”
“I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.”
“I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.”
“I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.”
“I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.”
“I have done my utmost to make this palace a true fortress,’ said Dorn. I’ve built it from the ground up, diligently… some say obsessively… making sure that it is impenetrable and secure. But that is an impossible task. There will always be cracks, there will always be flaws. No fortress of mere stone and steel in our galaxy is truly impervious. So I must place myself directly before those cracks, and block them with my own flesh and fury.’
He gazed at them steadily.
‘I am the fortress now,’ he said.”
Source: Saturnine
“I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?”
Source: A diary of my times
“I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.”
“I have done nothing but open windows-God has done all the rest.”
“I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.”
“I have done nothing wrong.”
Source: The World According to Martha
“I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!”
Source: Luther's Works: Christian in society
“I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.”
“I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.”
“I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.”
“I have done research about people who think they're doing movements and people - like Madonna and professional dancers - who are actually 'performing' movements. The people who can connect and perform during their workout get results way above and beyond the people who are just going through the motions.”
“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”
“I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.”
“I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?”
“I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.”
“I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.”
“I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.”
“I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.”
“I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.”
“I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.”
“I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.”
Source: Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
“I have done the thing, and now I must live with what I have done.
I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
Source: The Cruel Prince