So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.


Gloria Steinem

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so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.
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Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.
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Do the thing and you will have the power.
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There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
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Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
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I don't know how much the pope and Gloria Steinem really agreed on.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Do. Then talk. In that order.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come ba...
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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Just because it's a trend should we do it?
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Whatever good or bad you do, you do it to yourself.
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Do it and they will follow
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Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
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Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
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What you do will project you
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
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i can only change, what i can do with my own hands.
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Saying tomorrow only risks your chances of waking up after today.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
W. CLEMENT STONE
Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
You will find many to like you if you keep making a fool of yourself.
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Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
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It's all about making a decision. Ask yourself why you're making that particular goal. What is the p...
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind; no man is known for a skillful h...
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I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.
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Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
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Are you nervous?"...
"A little."
"Do you want to stop?"
"No, just go slow."
...
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Don't think it. Do it!
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If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if y...
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Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
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You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if i...
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Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no mat...
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Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.
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Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come...
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Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
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It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want ...
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If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more...
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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There's always been damn fool investors. You want to go where the value is. Buying stocks is like bu...
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We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
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If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do somet...
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That's fine. Do whatever you want to do.
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Give yourself the gift of what you want. What do you want to do to make yourself feel good that day?
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This is what I was brought in here to do, ... I'll do whatever it is the team needs me to do. I just...
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Sometimes you have to do absolutely nothing to gain something for yourself.
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And what do they want!?
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You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
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It's officer discretion, do whatever you want to do.
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The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
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so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM
I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman w...
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The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ...
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the wo...
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No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to...
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Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
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Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
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Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
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Our grief is not a cry for war.
"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what...
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In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women...
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
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Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
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If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
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We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
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Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
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If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
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Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
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Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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