Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
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If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.
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What is needed now is action, not hopelessness
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.
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I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
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Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.
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Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
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As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
