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A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

A lot of these things have hurt the average American. When they look at the banks and they say, "Well, the bank's talking its own game," I am telling you, what we've done in mortgage lending, our inability to have proper regulations around mortgages, has hurt average Americans. First-time buyers, immigrant buyers, prior defaults, self-employed, because they can't get a mortgage. Will it make a big difference to JPMorgan Chase? No, but you're hurting my fellow citizens. Let's go at it, and let's fix it.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Although it's pretty rare that I'll get completed, finished lyrics to a song and feel like it's done, and then decide that it's not worth doing. Usually, I can tell along the way - even if it's something I've been working on for a couple of months - that it's just not going to work. Maybe I'll come back to it a few months or even a year later, or maybe it's just gone.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.

A meat temperature gauge is a priceless tool. You can get a very inexpensive one at most hardware or sporting goods stores, which will easily help you determine the temperature of your meat so it is not over or undercooked. Pork is normally done at about 160, internal temperature. Steaks are cooked medium rare from 145 to 150. 165, medium. Well done is about 175, internal temperature.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

American citizens were targeted and nothing is going to be done about it.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.