Top 250 Actively Quotes

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.
Bill Shorten
I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
Nicolas Cage
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Gerry Adams
For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
Bill Flores
What kind of music keeps its relevance? That’s why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I do actively stay away from the most popular rhythms of the moment. In six weeks’ time, those will sound out-of-date.
Jon Hopkins
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
Henry Cloud
Quit being ‘busy’ and start actively owning and operating your company, and you’ll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.
Michael Gerber
I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.
Pat Smear
I’m not actively avoiding television. I just haven’t found the right fit yet, as it were. And that’s O.K.
Diane Lane
There’s no California tan about me. People assume I can’t tan, but I actually can. I went on a trip to Hawaii when I was younger and came back so tan that people were like, ‘What happened?’ It’s just not something I actively do. I want to embrace my ivory.
Lily Collins
I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we’ve been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation’s immigration policy, piece-by-piece.
Blake Farenthold
I’ve accepted I can’t rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.
Embeth Davidtz
When our state agencies work together, share resources and partner with the private sector to help connect businesses looking to hire with individuals actively seeking employment, Alabamians can rest assured we are doing our best to improve their quality of life.
Kay Ivey
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
Michael Leunig
If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.
Ilhan Omar
I am the CEO of HCL Corporation, and, of course, a large part of my time does get spent in HCL Corporation, whether it is in actively managing our investments or perhaps even the governance and accountability and really seeing the strategic direction forward for HCL Corporation.
Roshni Nadar
I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I’m not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They’re the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
Benigno Aquino III
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
Gordon W. Allport
Although the Ethereum blockchain is a public blockchain, it is great to see private and consortium blockchains using the Ethereum code base actively under development.
Vitalik Buterin
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
Charlie Sykes
I am actively campaigning for ‘chest hair’ to become an Olympic sport.
Chris Carmack
Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.
Ted Dwane
I finished ‘American Born Chinese’ in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
Gene Luen Yang
I’m one of those parents who are quite careful about documenting their children’s upbringing. I really try to actively observe. I write down the little things that happen.
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
I wasn’t ecstatic about being pregnant – I wasn’t somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
Elizabeth McGovern
But on the other hand, I don’t actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Russell Banks
I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
Hope Jahren
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
Thomas E. Mann
When we’re on Twitter, we’re not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody.
Lennon Parham
I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.
Pooja Hegde
Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday’s range obsolete on a whim.
Charlie Brooker
I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.
Carol W. Greider
Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to activ

Divorce is brutal and horrible and… you have to actively work to get your life back on track.
Jane Kaczmarek
My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.
Frances Tiafoe
I cannot support keeping our brave service men and women away from their families without a clear need or purpose that would actively benefit the people of Wisconsin or our nation.
Tony Evers
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
Greg Behrendt
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from ‘Gilmore Girls.’
Amy Sherman-Palladino
As an actor, I think it’s really important to be as anonymous as possible. It’s your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I’d get away from the screen – well, it’s not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I’m surprised anybody does.
Jodhi May
I loved thinking about how the law could be used to help others, how to interpret it that way. I think that probably comes from growing up in a family where my parents were actively involved in the community.
Catherine Cortez-Masto
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
We should actively be thinking about what our inventions would look like if exploited by someone with a less of a moral compass and decide if the world would really be better off with them in it.
Hannah Fry
I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren’t set, I don’t feel like I’m set. And I don’t have any baggage, for better or worse. I don’t have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that’s okay.
Dana Delany
I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.
Steve Bannon
You’ve got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you’ve got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
Lynn Davies
I’m always actively working on being a better me.
August Alsina
Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.
Michele Bachmann
Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren’t actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.
Rose Matafeo
I’ve learned that all of us should be constantly mindful of what’s going on around us. Sometimes I think we get pretty single-minded in our pursuits and forget that we really do need each other. We need to actively engage in giving and helping each other every day.
LaTanya Richardson
I’m involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I’m passionate about animals.
Princess Michael of Kent
It’s just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.
Julien Baker
We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.
George Pataki
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
Charles Hazlewood
Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw