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“There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.”

Shows Jobs Stars Can Do Taken Havens Approach Active Magazines Blockbuster

Author:Paul Rudd

“I don't like to sit still for long at all, which has probably helped me along the way, and partly why I was drawn to the heat of a restaurant kitchen. The rush of service means that you're always on your toes and keeps a chef pretty active.”

Way Mean Long Stills Active Heat Kitchen Restaurants Chef Toes

Author:Curtis Stone

“I was very active in the peace movement, still am.”

Stills Movement Active

Author:Margot Kidder

“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”

School Becoming Projects Summer High School Active Massive Voters Passages Mississippi Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Danny Glover

“I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me”

Helping Politics Causes Offers Active Practicals Individualism

Author:Kathleen Turner

“There are not many roles where women are really active.”

Author:Kathleen Quinlan

“Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.”

Needs Children Jobs Support Teacher Land Citizens Resources Encouragement Our Children Active Developing Our Future Support And Encouragement

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”

States Government Form Power Depends Active Expensive Royalty Monarchy Intimidating Parades Forms Of Government Monarchs Regal Enterprising Constitutional Monarchy

Author:James F. Cooper

“The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.”

Men Successful Active Attraction Law Of Attraction Vibrations Energetic Successful Man Positive Vibrations

Book:WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON Ultimate Collection – 58 Books in One Volume: The Power of Concentration, The Key To Mental Power Development & Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Secret of Success, Mind Power, Raja Yoga, Self-Healing by Thought Force…

Source: WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON Ultimate Collection – 58 Books in One Volume: The Power of Concentration, The Key To Mental Power Development & Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Secret of Success, Mind Power, Raja Yoga, Self-Healing by Thought Force…

“He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.”

Thinking Player Missing Paint Active Posts

Author:Shawn Marion

“I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.”

Thinking World Giving Doe Country Courses Support Risk Economic Arms Giving Up Iraq Active Other Countries Sanctions Disarmament Programmes Rebuilding Hanging On Economic Sanctions

Author:Denis Halliday

“A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.”

Real Strong Singing Active

Author:Jon Secada

“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.”

“The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.”

Way Active Proactive

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”

Men Self Government Eye Father Interest Party Virtue Duty Machines Property Faults Active Appetite Quarters Self Interest Parish

Book:Selections from Carlyle

Source: Selections from Carlyle

“The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.”

Mean Government Virtue Impossible Mankind Crime Protect Oneself Vices Active Criminals Mechanism Virtuous Governors Passive Energetic

Book:Juliette

Source: Juliette

“The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.”

Humans Art Lying Force Psychology Influence Active

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.”

Values Opportunity Sports Lines Careers Investment Bottom Marketing Athlete Active Bottom Line

Author:Dick Butkus

“Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.”

Men Desire Choices Moral Design Intention Affection Active Accountability

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to ﬁction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.”

People Reality Fantasy Special Effects Tvs Drama Computer Mass Gun Murder Active Video Evening Description Viewers Murderer Spectators Participants Mcdonalds Helmet Simulation Interactive

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.”

Men World Needs Humans Happiness Women Half Men And Women Tasks Active Cooperation Womens Rights One Half Human Happiness

Author:Lillian Wald

“I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.”

Men Way Life Real Moments Character Would Be Success Speak Felt Voice Attitude Moral Alive Particular Active Best Way Real Me

Author:William James

“To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

Source: Considerations on Representative Government

“No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.”

Kind Pain Active Impression Sensations

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.”

People Brain Active Strategist Thailand

Author:Thaksin Shinawatra

“In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.”

Wanted Space Painting Active Planes Spectators Aeroplanes Space Between

Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

“Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.”

Desire Cases Information Color Active Sunshine Aggressive Accurate Disposition Precise Gorgeous Innate Impressive Accuracy

Book:The Financier

Source: The Financier

“To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.”

Names Morality Abuse Errors Active Protest Excess Hints Complicity

Book:Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion

Source: Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion

“But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.”

Happens Realizing Excited Active Things Happen

Author:Studs Terkel

“In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers”

“Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.”

Purpose Energy Active Concentration Definite Concentrating Sith

Book:The Master Key System

Source: The Master Key System

“Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.”

People Ifs Knows World Mind Heart Real Eye Ears Active Real Life Worthwhile Heart And Mind World Love Active Life Worthwhile Things

Book:The Art of Public Speaking

Source: The Art of Public Speaking

“Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).”

Made Spirit Force Conditions Creation Revolution Series Active Violent Revolutionary Passive Maximum

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”

Ifs Believe Responsibility Fate Active

Book:Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

“I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.”

Water Drink Healthy Active Plenty

Author:Behati Prinsloo

“We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.”

Party Democracy Policy Citizens Discipline Active Anarchy Participation Bourgeois Implementing Babbling Active Participation

Author:Nicolae Ceausescu

“Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.”

People Persons Peace Busy Active Busy Person

Book:The Sky's the Limit

Source: The Sky's the Limit

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

People Real Able Form Energy Nature Habit Degrees Labor Essence Independent Active Superiors Artifice

Book:The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

Source: The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”

People World Giving Persons Care Walks Animal Boys Doors Dog Exercise Ill Bones Active Cease Cooks Caress Biscuits

Author:Frances Power Cobbe

“I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.”

Literature Optimism Active Intense Prophet Host Dislike Mixtures Conservatism Fatalism

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”

Hands Path Clothes Dresses Stupidity Active Occasions Disadvantages Every Occasion

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.”

People Reason Age Past Women Century Active Labels Live Life 21st Century Reluctant Living Life To The Full

Author:Ita Buttrose

“O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.”

Faith Asks Waiting Powerful Creative Active All Time Good Work

Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

“Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.”

Thinking Mind Motivational Study Active Brooks Muddy Active Minds

Author:Arthur Guiterman

“Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.”

Thinking Looks Community Awareness Gay Tests Cancer Active Aids Breasts Treatment Hiv Breast Cancer Stride Gay Community

Author:Herbie Mann

“Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.”

Country Past Lying Nice Alive Century Flower Civilization Capable Saint Active Regimes Venice Deposits Proust Combustion Overlooking Matisse Lorca Granada

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.”

Principles Evolution Periods Activity Female Species Extraordinary Males Active Heat Pairs Devices Aggression Lacking Sexually Primates Responsiveness

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.”

Mind Made Ends Pain Found House Ignorance Broken Painful Seeking Active Buddhist Cycles Rebirth Craving Shattered Builder Ridges Found You Painful Things Rafters

Author:Gautama Buddha

“This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic playing field for every student. State Boards of Education are ready to play an active role in this process and some have already started the progression of adoption. We are eager to move this agenda forward.”

“[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.”

Ifs World Want Helping Happens Universe Creator Active Things Happen Agents Volunteer Serving Others Make Things Happen

Author:Danah Zohar