Action Quotes
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I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.
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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
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I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.
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You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
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People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'
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With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.
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You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
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In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable - almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority.
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
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Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
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With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.
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When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
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Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.
