Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

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• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Together
  • Change
  • Action

• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • May
  • Guy

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Together
  • Action
  • Safety

• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Action
  • Government

• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Live
  • Action

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
  • American
  • Earth

• The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Take

• If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Think
  • Try
  • Supernatural

• I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Music
  • Different
  • Age

• When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • People
  • Gun

• Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • World
  • Thinking

• I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Action