Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes
Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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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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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.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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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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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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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.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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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.
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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.
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Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!
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The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.
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Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
