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If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Persevere and get it done.

Let justice be done, though the world perish.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.