“Don’t just do something, stand there!” This amusing inversion of every exasperated parent’s command to a child staring dazedly at ____ [a heap of still-unfolded laundry, a half-erected tent about to collapse, a bleeding sibling] has been variously attributed to Elvis Presley, Dwight Eisenhower, Catherine Hepburn, and the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.
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No, Casey Neistat, don’t ‘do more’
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“Don’t just do something, stand there!” This amusing inversion of every exasperated parent’s command to a child staring dazedly at ____ [a heap of still-unfolded laundry, a half-erected tent about to collapse, a bleeding sibling] has been variously attributed to Elvis Presley, Dwight Eisenhower, Catherine Hepburn, and the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.