Action Quotes
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There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
George Osborne
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Sallust
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In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.
Sabina Murray
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I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.
Keeley Hawes
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We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.
James Connolly
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It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!
Emma Watson
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I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
Dave Filoni
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
Camille Paglia
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People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.
Paul Watson
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.
David Duchovny
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It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
Jimmy Carr
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I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.
Jillian Murray
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
Warren Farrell
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
George Pierce Baker
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
Richard Holbrooke
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The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
Kurt Sutter
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones
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Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.
Holly Hunter
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One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
Tasha Smith
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He's (Bruce Sutter) going to be out of action the rest of his career.
Ralph Kiner
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I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'
Katrina Kaif
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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir