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STEVE YZERMAN There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY You can't make other people do "right." All you can do is "right" yourself, and sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
PAUL FARMER If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right...
SCOTT MCKENZIE Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right t...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was quite a thing, for a small town, even to get on an airplane, let alone Ed Sullivan.
BRYAN SMITH I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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ALEXANDRA PAUL Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
MARK TWAIN Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL COOL J For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,
ANNE WILSON And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
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DAVID CAMERON I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMAN I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.
EHUD OLMERT There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been goi...
EVE HEWSON After you see the devastation, its pretty substantial. It is the right thing for our company to do, ...
JANICE LANTZ Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th...
J. C. WATTS I think sometimes there is no right thing.
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MATT MICKIEWICZ The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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ROBIN HOBB You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
STIPE MIOCIC Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and m...
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
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OPRAH WINFREY Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing...
MARCIA ANGELL I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
PAT NIXON We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.
DENNIS MOORE We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do th...
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ALEX GIBNEY Maybe that would be a good thing to do.

He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him m...
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LAUREN OLIVER No where in life can you find millons of people coming together to share wealth like you have in a q...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZ Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that...
SUSIE BRIGHT The worst things in life come free to us
ED SHEERAN Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally...
K. A. PAUL The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
SHASHI Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
TRACY KIDDER I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing...
BEN VEREEN Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
SY ROSEN AND CHRISTIAN WILLIAMS I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doi...
DANNY DEVITO The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY This thing came out of nowhere. I think in the longer run, it's the right product strategy for the c...
YUN KIM When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy th...
SUZE ORMAN Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thi...
JAMES CARVILLE Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction i...
ADRIANA LIMA There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
IDRIS ELBA Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a mas...
RUPERT GRAVES The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy...
BEN BERNANKE Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing ever...
SHANNON MILLER Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI I think it was the biggest moment of their lives. Ed Sullivan was an icon for that generation.
ED SULLIVAN The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in...
MARY ANN MOBLEY Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.
WESAM FAWZI Gabril’s voice was strong and sure. “I believe in you, and I’ve fought for you, because in a w...
C.J. REDWINE You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right t...
C.J. REDWINE You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
RUTA SEPETYS The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Close...
ED SHEERAN All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is...
MAYA ANGELOU Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you'...
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ANDREW GARFIELD The time is always right for the right thing.
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GAVIN NEWSOM I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.
EMILY BLUNT The Bible symbolizes the godly principles we use in our company, ... We felt that if we built our co...
JAMES WALLACE Ed Jefferson exemplified the importance our company places on science. His leadership and insights t...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 1...
ELON MUSK The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF The Worst thing you can do to someone is it to pity on them...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
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ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ...
ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali...
ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t...
ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w...
ED O'BRIEN I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a...
ED O'BRIEN I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
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