I don’t think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they’re just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.
There’s a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we’ve arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.
My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
Justice is truth in action.
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There’s really not a lot of violence. It’s more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Tough action is being taken on criminals involved in robbery, kidnapping and other related crimes.
More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action – notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.
I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
We don’t know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That’s the world we live in.
Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.
The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.
I tried my hand in action films, and now I am back to love stories, as people like to see me as a lover boy! But as an actor, I want to try all genres.
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn’t able to succeed at those institutions.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.
Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn’t do all that much collection of intelligence. It’s not a very good spy agency, but it’s good at running covert action.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
All children should have a chance to speak up for what matters to them, like school violence, and they should be encouraged to take action to end violence against children.
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
You can’t make an action movie without action, and so, you can’t make a romance movie without romance.
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn’t work.
Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.
Take action. When you take action, you can create the outcome.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.
Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
I encourage active skepticism – when people are being skeptical because they’re trying to identify the best course of action. They’re trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it’s the opposite. I get paid to do action.
If you don’t like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.
Bumrah has a different action, which creates problems for the batsmen. He has improved a lot of things with his action. He had these yorkers, and slower ones earlier as well, but he has improved a lot.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
