I can’t be interesting, controversial, and the writer I’d like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I’m doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.
When you’re young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing – to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. – something’s going to happen. Black, it’s the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be ‘the’ dress.
You always gotta do the right thing: you never know who’s watching.
Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.
I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it’s the right thing to do.
Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
If you’re in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what’s the best solution to a particular problem.
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
Hopefully, people will look at our stance on privacy in general and know that we’re not trying to operate outside of a fairly distinct line that we’re drawing. I hope that people trust us to do the right thing there.
Namor has shades of grey but always ends up doing the right thing. I’ve played characters with an edge – played villains if not super villains – and he’s an anti-hero.
I wake up every day thinking, ‘I just can’t do it anymore.’ There’s nothing left to say, and I’m completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I’m on again.
Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful for isn’t merely the ‘right’ thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.
We can’t just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.
I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like ‘Butter’ to show that. And it’s perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don’t find the right thing.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can’t survive here more than minutes if you’re not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
There is a difference between legitimate issues of character – someone’s behavior – and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can’t talk about what is the right thing to do.
Transforming our societies and our economies is an agenda that requires the participation of all. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are key. Including and empowering women and girls to develop and implement climate solutions is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to do.
I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
I think you’ve still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her. You just try to do the right thing. I don’t know if that makes you a saint or the greatest guy in the world, but trying is a start.
I don’t do things to be rewarded. I help people because it’s the right thing to do.
My album is called ‘Zero to Infinity’ and none of my songs are going to have cheap, dirty lyrics. Every song, in a way, is a women empowerment song. Every song, even if it’s a dance track, you’ll be dancing on it, but it’s the right thing.
I believe that, at the end of the day, the American people are going to do the right thing for America and for the world.
