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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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Personal Development

"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."
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"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
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Explore more quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
Abortion

"I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence."
Will

"Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians."
Act

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
Life

"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it."
Love

"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."
Environment

"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."
Survival

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."
Land

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."
Work

"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
Life
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