John C. Calhoun Quotes
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.
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I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
