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doing a thing

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My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing. Howard Stern

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. J. D. Salinger

For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. Plutarch

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. J. P. Morgan

You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well. George Bernard Shaw

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that. Wendell Berry

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