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“I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.”

“I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.”

Thinking Wells Use House White Rights Fronts Let Me Credit Active Impression Civil Rights Administration Not Sure Good Man White House Eleanor

Author:William A. Rusher

“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”

People Thinking World Country Done Whole Social Projects Conscience Decided Credit Active Impression Whole World Cracks Slums Eleanor Descending Announcing Disadvantaged Ozarks

Author:William A. Rusher

“And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.”

Thinking Writing Looks Pain Grief Childhood Brother Bears Bed Sick Active Campaigns Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.”

Firsts Speak Language Parent Interesting Generations Catholic Raised Dare Active Eras Interiors Brooklyn Speaks Out

Author:Alice McDermott

“My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.”

Parent Democracy Citizens Election Critical Active Engaged Voters Polls Election Day

Author:Josh Earnest

“I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.”

Knows Should Writing Kids Asks One Thing Balance Males Active Popping Aggravating

Author:Celeste Ng

“I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Character Interesting Alive Listening Active Passive Spy Interesting Characters

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.”

Firsts Humans Mean Persons Self Human Beings Levels Knowing Perspective Models Active First Person Profile Phenomenal Distinctive

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.”

Feels Long Reason Enough Felt Cities Feet New York Moved Warm Active Suburbs Barren

Author:Iggy Pop

“I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.”

Persons Sex Brain Anxiety Stress Average Active Nerd Sexually Average Person

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Keep active - do something physical each day. Could be as simple as taking the dog out for a walk (if you've got a dog!), but could be going for a swim, or going to the gym every day.”

Ifs Simple Walks Dog Active Each Day Swim Gym

Author:Peter Kinderman

“Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.”

Needs Brain Machines Active Fantastic

Author:Peter Kinderman

“A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.”

Play Wanted Rich Clear Mines Theater Dear Active Actresses Department Dear Friend Wendy

Author:John Cariani

“I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.”

People Thinking Kind Stills Different Cases Tough Active Different Kinds Sixty Grandparent Seventies Tough Times

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I'm not just talking about analyzing symbols from a dream but bringing the dream into life. I'm talking about seeing the world around you as a waking dream where the symbols and synchronicities will speak to you if you pay attention. That's why I call it active dreaming because it's about getting active with all our dreams can be.”

Ifs World Dream Speak Pay Attention Talking Seeing Active Symbols Pay Attention Waking Our Dreams Synchronicity Analyzing Seeing The World

Author:Robert Moss

“Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.”

Children Ideas Light Eye Vision Heard Listening Projects Active Infant

Author:Eyvind Kang

“The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.”

World Ends Nice Week Band Pressure Albums Active Labels End Of The World Bangs Max Nice Things No Pressure Rosters

Author:Max Tundra

“I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.”

Stills Reason Three Hours Half Active Expensive Ohio Chores Columbus Half Hours Midwest Columbus Ohio

Author:David Pajo

“I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child stuff.”

People Thinking Want Children Stills Different Play Stuff Couple Band Majority Active Focused

Author:David Pajo

“So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.”

Dream Body Sleep Emotion Brain Stage Quiet Active Processing

Author:Shelby Harris

“When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.”

Mind Said Helping Body Memories Sleep Brain Happened Stage Quiet Deeper Active Your Body Cells Damage Restoring Digestion Repairing

Author:Shelby Harris

“When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.”

Thinking Mind Body Happens Night Turns Sleep Active Your Body Awake Frustrated Tense Toss Awake At Night

Author:Shelby Harris

“Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.”

People Mind Dream Happens Eye Moving Sleep Common Brain Stage Active Common Man Paralysis Fireworks

Author:Shelby Harris

“These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.”

Writing Two Force Active Opposing

Author:Gore Vidal

“I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them.”

Thinking Way Shows Problem Answers Roles Taken Middle Vote Including Active East Russia Iran Middle East

Author:Rand Paul

“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”

Ifs Should Firsts Humans I Can War Wish Blood Delight Active Honorable

Author:John Paul Jones

“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).”

Trying Play Acting Conditions Emotional Overcoming Intention Active Doings

Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses”

Choices Response Active Passive

Author:Deborah Day

“Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.”

Voice Type Becoming Conversation Add Social Media Active Participants Best Place

Author:Mitch Joel

“Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.”

Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then you will be content with the way God does things for you in your life. If you are satisfied, you are satisfied, regardless of whether you are healthy, free, and active, or are limited in some way.”

Ifs Way Should Doe Grace Praying Healthy Active Satisfied Daily Life Godly

Author:Esther Smith

“I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.”

Thinking Children Important Shows Kids Example Theory Hero Active

Author:John Assaraf

“A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.”

People Generations Active Educated New Generation

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.”

Ifs Needs Should Trying Mind Wells Force Active Outlets Active Minds

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point - a hindrance in sadhana.”

Ifs Hands Strong Weak Active Hindrance Mould Weak Points

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.”

Ifs Mind Silence Capacity Active

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.”

Children Real Ends Enough Happens Kids Remember Political Mother Actors Natural Interesting Disease Losing Empathy Consequence Aspect Iraq Active Rest Of Your Life Natural Consequences

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.”

People Giving Inspire Active Giving Back

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.”

People Way Looks Country States Political United Party United States Objects Members Europe Election Active Other Countries Passive Political Parties Submissive

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think growing up it was never an issue for me to think about working out or having a healthy lifestyle because I danced so much. Then when I stopped dancing and I got into regular life mode, I didn't realize how much diet and nutrition and being active was so important. Not only for my physical state, but for my mental state, too. I think that's just as important as working out for your physical state.”

Thinking Important States Realizing Growing Up Issues Growing Healthy Dancing Work Out Active Lifestyle Diets Nutrition Healthy Lifestyle

Author:Julianne Hough

“I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.”

Mind States Clear Active Physically Active

Author:Julianne Hough

“A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.”

Knows Mind Book Done Imagination Half Novel Active Providing

Author:Noah Hawley

“I am very active on Instagram and love connecting with people there.”

People And Love Active Connecting Instagram

Author:Rachele Brooke Smith

“Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a Special Forces, hand-to-hand combat expert. He's got a big heart. He has a sense of duty that never ends, whether he is active duty or as you find him in Check Point, retired.”

Heart Ends Self Hands Bigs Force Special Duty Active Checks Experts Combat Retired Departure Big Heart Special Forces

Author:Bill Goldberg

“It [selecting as many candidates as possible] is also advantageous for the [Conservative] Party because it helps us to build a base in those areas where we have not in, recent times, been as active as we'd have liked. It means that opposing parties don't get a free run but are challenged to prove themselves to voters.”

Mean Helping Running Party Prove Areas Active Voters Opposing

Author:Theresa May

“Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.”

Thinking Play Nations Unique Organization Independence Including International Israel Active Fierce Rwanda Unique Experiences

Author:Paul Kagame

“Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.”

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Author:Christina Applegate

“I exercise a lot. I enjoy exercising. I switch back and forth with cardio and strength training every other day, and I try to do something active every single day. Other than that, I try to make sure I have enough quiet time to myself to recharge every week as well.”

Trying Wells Enough Enjoy Week Exercise Quiet Training Active Back And Forth Cardio Quiet Time Strength Training

Author:Rhea Seehorn

“I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.”

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Author:Rhea Seehorn

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