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		There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
	
	  Athol Fugard Athol Fugard
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		To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.
	
	 Chaka Fattah
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		I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.
	
	  Drew Barrymore Drew Barrymore
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		Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
	
	  Alexander Haig Alexander Haig
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		We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.
	
	  Will Forte Will Forte
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		I would call on you to devote urgent attention to scaling this action up and look forward to learning about progress later in the year.
	
	  Christiana Figueres Christiana Figueres
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		The only cure for grief is action.
	
	  George Henry Lewes George Henry Lewes
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		I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets - it's all CGI created. To me, it's not authentic.
	
	  Jason Statham Jason Statham
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		The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.
	
	  Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin
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		For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
	
	  William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
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		Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
	
	  Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt
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		'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.
	
	  Twyla Tharp Twyla Tharp
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		One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.
	
	  Dan Barker Dan Barker
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		Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.
	
	  L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard
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		Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.
	
	  Belinda Johnson Belinda Johnson
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		My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
	
	  Arthur Frank Burns Arthur Frank Burns