Top 100 We Did It Quotes
#1. With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
David Beckham
#2. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow
#3. Sex was not worth the wait. After we did it, I was kind of like, that's it?
Kevin Jonas
#4. I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#5. Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
Andy Partridge
#6. We did it," he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. "Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#7. What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?
Eric Ries
#8. I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances," he said. "It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.
Donna Tartt
#9. That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets.
Kurupt
#10. When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
Haley Barbour
#11. The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.
Deborah Cox
#12. If we do nothing but to remove a rock upon which someone might have tripped, though they may never know we did it, is this not our cause, our reason for life?
R. William Bennett
#13. I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
Derek Jacobi
#14. But we did it," said Alys. "We found Morgana and we helped her. How can you worry about detentions when life as we know it has just been saved?
L.J.Smith
#15. Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.
Doug E. Fresh
#16. And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
Laura Miller
#17. To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tzu
#18. We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
Steve Sabol
#19. We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.
Troy Vincent
#20. You know, we've finally made it. We did it this time. They'll never be able to hide us again.
Richie Havens
#21. She was drunk so I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out.
Dave Attell
#22. Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there was a logical connection between our three albums, and it 's great to see that people seem to realize that when they listen now to the live show.
Thomas Bangalter
#23. What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it.
Gregory Maguire
#24. I take full responsability ... for what we did. It was the right thing to do.
William J. Clinton
#25. [Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren't right to do that - I don't think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons - to create empathy.
Oliver Stone
#26. My mic is a Magnum.
See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon.
Man ... we did it in the back of your Magnum;
I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'
Pharoahe Monch
#27. Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
Jimmy Page
#28. We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#29. We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.
Tim Pawlenty
#30. In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
Susana Martinez
#31. The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!
Robert Griffin III
#32. All I want is a chance to start this over with you. We did it backwards, and that's on me. I get it. But damn it, let me try again, because if you don't, it'll be the biggest regret of my life.
Kristen Proby
#33. We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#34. We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.
Nolan Bushnell
#35. We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
J.K. Rowling
#36. It's definitely got a lot more grit to it. And, we don't pretend to be the smartest people there. We're not like, This is how we did it, and now we're just going to show you how we go catch them. The audience gets to figure it out with us.
Angie Harmon
#37. The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
Laozi
#38. I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.
John Kasich
#39. I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same (...)
Daphne Du Maurier
#40. 'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.
Drew Carey
#41. Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
Bubba Smith
#42. We didn't do anything wrong ... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.
Rodney Alexander
#43. We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.
Benjamin Lichtenberg
#44. It's not because we knew" Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. "It's because we did it.
Hugh Howey
#45. We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us ...
Philip K. Dick
#46. I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
Linford Christie
#47. We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
David Stern
#48. When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
Richard Donner
#49. My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
Ronald Reagan
#50. We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
Paul Watson
#51. Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did it for Science.
Mira Grant
#52. And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
Jenna Elfman
#53. There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.
Diana Nyad
#54. In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.
Toni Tennille
#55. You're my miracle! The fact that you and I came together, that we met, that I found the love of my life. That's a miracle, Millie! I'm so grateful for that. So many people don't get that. We did. It's a miracle I was awake enough not to miss it. And it's a miracle you loved me back.
Amy Harmon
#56. The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.
Jeremy Grantham
#57. We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
William Perry
#58. I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.
Tamora Pierce
#59. We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Katherine Dunham
#60. I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
Bille August
#61. If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
Joe DiMaggio
#62. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#63. I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
Anne Carson
#64. I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.
Danny Meyer
#66. There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.
Wylie Dufresne
#67. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Paul Bryant
#68. I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
Linford Christie
#69. When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
Norman Jewison
#70. The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.
Scott McCallum
#71. Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.
Fred Astaire
#72. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse
Gerald M. Weinberg
#73. I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney
#74. We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.
Kenneth Oppel
#75. Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.
James A. Owen
#76. We did it, Baby," he said in a hushed voice. "I still can't believe you're my wife."
"Believe it," I said, smiling.
Jamie McGuire
#77. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
Natalie Goldberg
#78. Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
Laozi
#79. The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband
#80. Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
Ken Thompson
#81. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.
Manuel Pellegrini
#82. The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
Frances Beinecke
#83. The superflu we can charge off to the stupidity of the human race. It doesn't matter if we did it or the Russians, or the Latvians.
Stephen King
#84. But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#85. My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.
Nicolle Wallace
#86. A few birds sang in the distance; everything was still. We were truly alone. This was it, no turning back now. Even if we did, it was a long walk home.
Dennis R. Blanchard
#87. In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.
William Odom
#89. And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.
Ringo Starr
#90. I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.
Guillermo Del Toro
#91. I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
Ben Crenshaw
#92. If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
Ian Jackson
#93. We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Walt Disney
#94. We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
Johnny Damon
#95. The campaigns and the models in them create the fantasy around the brand. It has always been about having strong images. Without that, we could not have gone into all the categories we did. It really has been the foundation from where the house of Guess was built.
Paul Marciano
#97. We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it - by making it lower case.
Geoffrey Wood
#98. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
Dennis Bergkamp
#99. We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
Joschka Fischer
#100. Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.
David Z. Hirsch
