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We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

True, America, Less

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Chris Wedge

Age, Rather, Comedy

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl

Simple, Help, Learned

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
Piper Laurie

Forget, Remember, Face

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Excited, Adrenaline, Scenes

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
Larry Wachowski

Idea, Movie, Received

Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.
Evan Sayet

Try, Easy, Might

It's good to be in on the action.
Rick Majerus

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.
Katherine Moennig

Women, Great, Cool

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Bess Truman

Against, Talent, Race

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
Ray Stevenson

Thought, Figure

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.
Adam Scott

Love, Good, Mean

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Cofer Black

Law, Covert, Operate

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
Charles Van Doren

Change, Past, Cannot

I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
Jason Marsden

Stuff, Room, Batman

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Chow Yun-Fat

Love, Romantic, Hero

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Somebody, Pictures, Involved

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.
Armie Hammer

Time, Great, Mean

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
John Thaw

Work, Said, Wrong

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller

Mind, Two, Result

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Johannes P. Muller

Light, Speak, Quite

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
Johannes P. Muller

Power, Through, Light

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Nature, Future, Thinking

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Give, Different, Belief

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
Takeshi Kitano

Pain, Game, Real

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Jonathan Coleman

Feelings, Thoughts, Enough

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.
Herb Kohl

Makes, President, Priority

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
Louis Finkelstein

Today, Different, Remember

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
Salvatore J. Cordileone

Marriage, Legal, Through

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