Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
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Related I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out... IRIS APFEL Rain or shine, and it doesn't matter what sport, boys or girls, those guys show up to show their sup... ED DALTON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want th... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit... MARILYN MONROE I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must li... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I don't carry over. Like if I drop a ball in the outfield, I won't carry it over to the plate. Or if... ELIJAH DUKES To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out the... JOEL PINEIRO It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has ... CAVETT ROBERT It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI The jury is going to carry the baggage of what happened in October back there (the jury room) with t... JONATHAN SHAPIRO Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don... DAN CARTER Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign... VIKTOR E. FRANKL No one's as nice as they want to be. Even if they may act it, in their heart of hearts they know whe... KASSANDRA CHARBONNEAU Even if it is just for a day or two, it will give them some money to carry on. FRANK FORD Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be... LEWIS CARROLL Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign... VIKTOR E. FRANKL To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS He eventually has to carry the torch; it is just a matter of time. I am 72 years old. I hope to live... CARMEN SALVINO It's gonna sound like them if it is them. It sounds like them now, that's what I think. It doesn't, ... GEORGE HARRISON What I'm getting out of it is a feeling that when I come out here, I'm not going to be overwhelmed b... HUNTER PENCE This is not directed to anyone, but I have seen too many people give up or afraid to try to reach fo... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE The last thing you want to do is press them. But when we got down 10 or 12 points we had to because ... BRIAN BOWLES I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to ... MAYA ANGELOU The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS [That approach encourages Judiciary Democrats, as well as outside groups opposing Roberts.] I have a... BRUCE GORDON The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON It shows us no matter where we are or who we play, we can stay with them. We spotted them 21 points.... DAVID OVERSTREET For us, it's a matter of not getting too far ahead of ourselves and making sure everyone is treated ... GLENN LOCKWOOD The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and lo... AARON KLUG Faithed belief;Is a belief that has additional faith or that which requires additional faith to carr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoi... NIGEL LAWSON I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ANNE FRANK Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are b... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE My confidence is up. I just think the big part is my teammates have confidence in me and they're get... LATOYA PRINGLE We're getting ideas about the existing zoning and whether it is doing the job we want it to, or if w... ALEX WEINHAGEN Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not wa... BILLIE JEAN KING The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And ... ALDOUS HUXLEY Being a senior, it's sort of 'the role,' as everybody calls it. You sort of have to take it upon you... JUSTIN BIGELOW No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them ou... ANNE SULLIVAN We certainly have indications, increasingly so, that units either can't carry out a mission which is... THOMAS WILSON Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is lack of motivation in the Delhi team. I want to show the youngsters that I still have the a... MANOJ PRABHAKAR They're just such a tight-knit group. I think it was very special to them because they knew that the... GREG HEATH Our video analysis has been pretty thorough about what we have got to do and what we want to achieve... DAFYDD JAMES When the football is handed to the ball carrier, everyone counts on that guy gaining a down or getti... JAKE BYRNE The mind doesn’t carry anything on its own, but it capture everything from outside, and stretch th... ROSHAN SHARMA Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested. JOHN GOTTI The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpe... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it. SCOTT TUROW The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defe... GUNNAR MYRDAL Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assign... VIKTOR FRANKL If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm ... JELLO BIAFRA She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit... LAURA LIPPMAN I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of do... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Parents are often either unaware of dangers, or they're freaked out about them. They want software b... PARRY AFTAB Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or... BECKY LYNCH Some of the boys there are getting paid to help with clean-up efforts, ... Anthony (the older son) d... DEBBIE JOHNSON Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. HARRY S TRUMAN Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers... JOSE MARTI I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether y... KATE WINSLET I expected them to come out really hard, and they played a great game, but we took it to them. Every... KATY CLARK You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ... IAN RANKIN It'd be a shame if they got laid off over there and got put out on the street for x number of days o... TOM PIERCE And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to... PAUL NEILAN So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've ... BRUCE BOXLEITNER I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL It is in the African Union's interest to prove its ability to carry out its first peacekeeping opera... SULEIMAN AWAD This is all about telling students that someone cares. I want to be that link between the creative i... ERICA HOWARD My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. JORGE LUIS BORGES In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them h... E.A.A. WILSON Anyone can get people out when they are throwing the ball right where they want to. But that doesn't... CARL WILLIS Anyone can get people out when they are throwing the ball right where they want to, ... But that doe... CARL WILLIS The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even... BERTOLT BRECHT The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings. DEBASISH SEN I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go t... EMMA WATSON Hermione suddenly smiled very mischievously, and Harry noticed it too: It was a very different smile... J.K. ROWLING Shoot, I've never been in the playoffs, so I'm running out of time, and I know that I need to rely o... JEFF CIRILLO Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence m... NANCY KRESS An autograph is actually refreshing because everyone has cameras now and wants a selfie. That's ... NICK KROLL The dilemma is whether to rest them and get them out of shape or work them and risk getting them mor... PINSOOM TENZING I got out of the truck, half-hoping she would be too sleepy to walk. I wanted to carry her. She brou... DEBRA ANASTASIA A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd. SOREN KIERKEGAARD It would be so easy to just carry a bomb in a suitcase. They could just blow the hell out of us. CHARLIE COX I really have no confidence out there. I'm getting bad jumps. It's hard to steal with a lack of stre... SCOTT PODSEDNIK We're not going too come out too quickly or too much, ... We do want to bring it back to irreverent ... GARY FOSTER Some businesses may be so busy that they're looking for an extra hand in terms of bookkeeping. Or, t... LYNN BEARE Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it. JOE BROWN AND DAVID BROWN Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and... TRENT REZNOR People are definitely being more conscious of what they carry. Even after they've checked their lugg... CAROLYN FENNELL
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MICHAEL DYSON I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us s... SIMON DYSON It's nice to see our old cars here. There's no one better to give some feedback on the car than Andy... CHRIS DYSON Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test... GEORGE DYSON The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carb... FREEMAN DYSON The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come ... FREEMAN DYSON I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo... FREEMAN DYSON Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad. ELOISE DYSON Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that ... GEORGE DYSON Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we
are different that ea... BRIAN DYSON A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha... FREEMAN DYSON We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most ... FREEMAN DYSON Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. FREEMAN DYSON I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ... ESTHER DYSON The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c... FREEMAN DYSON Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again... ESTHER DYSON I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are st... GEORGE DYSON Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. FREEMAN DYSON We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types. ESTHER DYSON There are also computers with Windows that stick. ESTHER DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha... ESTHER DYSON The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet comm... ESTHER DYSON I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful ap... FREEMAN DYSON You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi... FREEMAN DYSON The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. FREEMAN DYSON I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. FREEMAN DYSON It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To... ESTHER DYSON It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it e... MICHAEL DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology ... ESTHER DYSON As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. ESTHER DYSON A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. ESTHER DYSON I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. ESTHER DYSON In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get ... ESTHER DYSON In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little prog... ESTHER DYSON There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadv... ESTHER DYSON Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities. ESTHER DYSON I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is... ESTHER DYSON I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi... ESTHER DYSON Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal. GEORGE DYSON The eagle was one of the best shots I have ever hit. I had 242 yards to the flag, and I hit a 5-wood... SIMON DYSON I think he is one of the best up-and-coming players I have seen. It won't be long before he is sat h... SIMON DYSON It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I... SIMON DYSON Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I f... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-n... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American pr... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how inform... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enor... FREEMAN JOHN DYSON He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rap... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone dar... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON