Top 100 Things I Do Quotes
#1. I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
#2. People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry
#3. It's like I'm living inside a mirror. I see things, I do things, but they are just surfaces and nothing more.
Elizabeth Scott
#4. One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#5. I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.
Hannibal Buress
#6. Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
Jane Asher
#8. Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
Mike Rowe
#9. I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.
Helena Christensen
#10. And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.
Teri Terry
#11. I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
Karl Pilkington
#12. The man looked over at the woman. "The things I do for love," he said with loathing. He gave Bran a shove.
George R R Martin
#13. Do you scent the same things I do?"
Ransom made a face when she described what she'd picked up from the passing vamp. "Yeah, except I don't say shit like 'cinnamon spice with a hint of burnt oak.' I say 'dude smells like an electrified tree with a side of doughnut topping.
Nalini Singh
#14. One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
James Comey
#15. I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
Tim McGraw
#16. That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.
Zeena Parkins
#17. It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.
Eric Hernandez
#18. Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
Howard Stern
#19. Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.
Thomas E. Kennedy
#20. I imagine that anyone who goes through trauma like I have wonders the same things I do: how God can exist and allow such awful things to happen. There are no reasons for my parents' death, and that's that.
Jessica Park
#21. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.
Vaslav Nijinsky
#22. While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax
Ryan Adams
#23. It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.
Angie Stone
#24. I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
Grant Heslov
#25. The things I do for love, it said. Bran screamed. The crow took to the air, cawing. Not that, it shrieked at him. Forget that, you do not need it now, put it aside, put it away. It landed on Bran's shoulder, and pecked at him, and the shining golden face was gone. Bran
George R R Martin
#26. I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
Malin Akerman
#27. There are certain things I do not talk about.
Jodi Picoult
#28. A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
Peter Saul
#29. But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
Bryan Ferry
#30. I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil. Such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you -have I failed?
Morrissey
#31. A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.
Eugene Mirman
#32. I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.
Ryan Seacrest
#33. All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
Ethan Hawke
#34. I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity
Emery Lord
#35. I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
John Travolta
#36. Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don't. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.
Anna Carey
#37. I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly - mostly, mostly - I do.
John Searles
#38. I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know ... It's just really remarkable.
Kevin Spacey
#39. I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
Muhammad Ali
#40. I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
Flula Borg
#41. I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
Queen Latifah
#42. I regret not starting to paint earlier ... It is one of the few things I do regret.
Francis Bacon
#43. Arie, would you like to interview me? I think you'd be good at it."
"After centuries of living there are two things I do well - fighting and fucking.
A.C. James
#44. I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.
Beyonce Knowles
#45. I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.
Ben Sollee
#46. Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.
I am old.
Walter
Barbara Wersba
#47. For me, I don't really see a lot of the things I do as what I do, I see that as what our team does. It just happens to be that I'm the quarterback in those situations.
Colin Kaepernick
#48. I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.
Richard Tuttle
#49. Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
Michelle M. Pillow
#50. It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?
Jenna Brooks
#51. Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.
Marisa Miller
#52. Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre ... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.
James Nares
#53. If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
Diane Arbus
#54. I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#55. But once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog - it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.
Jim Butcher
#56. Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy Parker
#57. I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
James Franco
#58. as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do
Rachel Zucker
#59. I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable!
Robert Ludlum
#60. One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside from eating right and getting enough sleep, exercise keeps me trim and boosts my energy.
Martha Stewart
#61. I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.
Caroline Wozniacki
#62. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day ... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day ... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things ... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures ...
Charles M. Schulz
#63. Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
Lewis Carroll
#65. Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard Bach
#66. I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.
Julie Anne Peters
#67. We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.
Mira Nair
#68. Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
Gwen Stefani
#69. People think I am dead because they haven't seen me around for awhile. I'm not dead, I'm very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don't smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton
#70. I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.
Stewart Butterfield
#71. Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.
Gina Barreca
#72. I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.
Pansy Ho
#73. Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry - banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up,
David Byrne
#74. I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
Alice Walker
#75. I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#76. Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Brian Eno
#77. Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.
Kirk Caldwell
#78. I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?
Mika.
#79. I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#80. I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.
Sasha Grey
#81. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
Ashly Lorenzana
#82. The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
Serena Williams
#83. All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.
Lindsey Stirling
#84. I work with a stylist called Devon Nuszer and a makeup artist called Aaron Barry, and between those two, I trust them implicitly. I have the things I do over and over again and that I feel safe with, but they inspire me to take risks, and I trust them so much.
Rose McIver
#85. I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.
Viggo Mortensen
#86. Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.
Dhani Jones
#87. You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.
Cherie Blair
#88. There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.
Jim Carrey
#89. But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know
Philip Pullman
#90. I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
Eric Dane
#91. Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.
Nora Ephron
#92. I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.
Clarice Lispector
#93. One of the first things I do with people is help them figure out what their limiting beliefs are and then encourage them to question, "Well, do I really want to keep that one? Is it limiting me? Does it not fit me? Is it holding me back?"
Deborah King
#94. Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.
Terrell Owens
#95. Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Herschel Walker
#96. Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
Richard L. Evans
#97. I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg
#98. One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.
Kevin A. Ford
#99. One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.
Sandra Lee
#100. There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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