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

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• 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

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• 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

• If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Action

• Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Comedy

• I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • Lived
  • Great Things

• God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Up
  • God

• To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil - to name only a few scenes of today's armed struggle - would be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European.

  

  Che Guevara
  • American
  • Today
  • Die

• 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