Action Quotes
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As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.
 Christine Todd Whitman
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It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
 Ellen Key
					 
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From my most unnoticed actions,
 C.P. Cavafy
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
 Jackie Chan
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Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.
 Edgar Wright
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
 Jackie Chan
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There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.
 Jeb Hensarling
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
 Jane Addams
					 
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
 William P. Young
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There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
 Immanuel Kant
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We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
 James Mangold
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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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'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'
 Malcolm Bradbury
					 
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Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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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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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I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
 Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.
 Leonardo da Vinci
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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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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
 John Strachan
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I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!
 Jack Roy
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
 Ed Koch
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The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.
 Dee Dee Myers