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Action Quotes
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
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"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
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"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
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"Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil."
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"If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct."
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"We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray."
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."
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"Action makes more fortune than caution."
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"Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan."
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"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
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"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
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"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters."
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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."
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"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
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"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut."
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"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."
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"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
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"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
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"King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure."
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"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."
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"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
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