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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
Me
Book
People
Action
Mad
Indiana
Indiana Jones
Adventure
Call
Comic
Comic Book
Get
Movie
Movie Star
Fantasy
Action Movie
Star
Film
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
Man
Hero
Action
Immense
Involved
Difference
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Acts
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert A. Simon
Action
Design
Changing
Everyone
Courses
Existing
Situations
Preferred
Who
Designs
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Man
Science
Edge
Action
Live
Both
Mystery
Always
Surrounded
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James Baldwin
You
Man
Balance
Action
Satisfied
Thinking
Insane
Must
Somewhat
He
Himself
Proves
Lack
Order
Sensible
Ask
Act
Meant
Reasonably
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Beautiful
Man
World
Single
Action
Every
Weigh
Instinctively
Feels
Than
Romantic
Lovely
Sentiments
Less
Every Man
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Jean Racine
Faith
Action
Sincere
Without
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
Jenny Shipley
Future
Speak
Action
Difficult
Our
Must
Insufficient
Issues
Expect
Commitments
Children
Grandchildren
Hollow
Us
Act
Tolerated
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
Jeremy Renner
Me
Man
Hurt
Sense Of Humor
Words
Humor
Few
Sense
Action
Locker
Lot
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
Jim Wallis
Faith
Good
Political
Values
King
South Africa
Action
Think
President
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Good Thing
Put
Leaders
South
Political Leaders
Did
Africa
Want
Thing
Here
Desmond
Luther
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
John Lewis
Leadership
Me
Words
King
Action
Something
Inspired
Parks
Wanted
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Deeply
Dr
Dr. King
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
John Stuart Mill
Character
Natural
Action
Rules
Must
Some
Seems
Color
Take
Suppose
Sake
End
Subservient
Which
Whole
The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
Dreams
Business
People
World
Simple
Finish Line
Own
Action
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Running
Finish
Simple Thing
Between
Make
Hall
Line
Owning
Difference
Plan
Across
Full
Who
Marathon
Thing
Playing
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
Man
Personality
Complicated
Situation
Action
Finds
He
Issue
Expedient
Artist
Whether
Creates
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Joseph de Maistre
Guidance
Wonderful
Free
Action
Throne
Scheme
Divine
Bound
Most
Supreme
Supreme Being
Without
Being
Which
Us
Aspect
Flexible
Beings
Chain
Things
Universal
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
Julian Bond
Time
First
White
White House
Action
Sign
Carries
Someone
Picket
First Amendment
House
Amendment
Any
Front
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Khaled Hosseini
Life
Time
Sometimes
Long
Long Time
Nothing
Action
Every
Consequences
Our
Takes
Understand
Happens
Fully
Actions
Series
Vacuum
The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
LL Cool J
Me
You
Made
Action
Films
Incredible
Everything
Charisma
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Had
He
Know
Make
Lee
Lot
Person
Handsome
Want
Loved
Movies
Reason
Actor
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Life
Time
Made
Action
Constant
More
Seldom
Calls
Answers
Up
Than
Contrived
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
Wisdom
Action
Frank
Promise
Lies
Greatest
Opinions
Conflicting
Expression
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West
Woman
Words
Few
Action
Lots
Very
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira
Man
Action
Harmonious
Physical
Mental
Tendency
Sincerity
Linguistic
Gains
Speech
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
Marilyn Ferguson
Faith
Spiritual
People
Vision
Lose
Action
Our
Religious
Gives
Leaders
New
Institutions
Occur
Authority
Viability
Which
Social
Themselves
Then
Transplanted
Awakening
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Martin Heidegger
Action
Think
Enough
About
Still
Essence
Means
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
You
Action
Once
Definite
Out
Carrying
Put
Ready
Begin
Whether
Plan
Create
Your
Desire
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson Mandela
Life
Freedom
Struggle
Surrender
Will
My Life
Sacrifice
South Africa
Fighting
Action
Only
Through
Days
Until
Leave
Continue
Nor
South
End
Won
Africa
Militant
Hardship
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