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Action Quotes
"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."
"Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return."
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
"So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq."
"We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something."
"We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero."
"It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!"
"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it."
"Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops."
"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future."
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
"Be perceptive. Be progressive. Be proactive. Be productive."
"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
"The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing."
"We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification."
"What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions."
"The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action."
"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action."
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
"Find the problems-not to complain-but to solve."
"Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take."
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
"We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible."
"Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation."
"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848."
"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."
"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."
"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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