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I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.
Jane Goodall

Best, School, Human

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
Thornton Wilder

Truth, Learned, Moral

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel

Battle, Soul, Memories

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.
Barney Frank

Fight, Political, Problem

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf

Hope, Silence, Words

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel Boone

Men, Powerful, Country

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.
Arthur Scargill

Nothing, Giving, Support

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
Rachel Weisz

Love, Time, Political

Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick Cheney

Direct, Threats, Decisive

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
Alan Dershowitz

Mind, Career, Wrong

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
Rowan D. Williams

Health, Help, Long

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Sleep, Grows, Gather

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jacob Bronowski

Human, Find, Cannot

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
Jacob Bronowski

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
Karl Kraus

Hard, Thought, Often

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.
Alexander Mackenzie

Political, Sometimes, Logic

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
Henry A. Wallace

Power, War, May

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
Channing Tatum

Hope, Movies, Happy

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.
Channing Tatum

Love, Movies, Someone

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Elia Kazan

Nothing, Cannot, Actor

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan

Stage, Movement, Essence

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
Elia Kazan

Important, Word, Film

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
Elia Kazan

Nothing, Remember, Said

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem

Movies, Political, Serious

I'm a fan of action movies.
Kate Beckinsale

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
Kate Beckinsale

Movies, Dangerous, Actor

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
Raymond Holliwell

Heart, Real, Thought

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford

Book, Mad, Film

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
Harrison Ford

Movies, Human, Lost

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