#doin

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#also #binary #choices #coded #depending

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#because #been #cards #comedy #dealt

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#blessed #cursed #doing #i #i am

Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men! ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#demands #doing #like #married #married men

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#fun #have fun #people #rarely #succeed

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash! ↗

— Peter Banks

#another #approach #attempt #bits #different

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. ↗

— James Purefoy

#between #doing #drawing #films #historical

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#demand #doing #fulfill #huge #into