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Action Quotes
"To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action."
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"You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act."
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"I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?"
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"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."
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"Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing."
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?"
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"There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action."
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"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort."
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"Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles."
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"Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries."
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"Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing."
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"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."
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"Act-act in the living present!"
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"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."
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"It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential."
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
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"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
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"Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses."
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"Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter."
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"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
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"An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent."
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"If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film."
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"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action."
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"To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism."
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"Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece."
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"Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN."
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"It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action."
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"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
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