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By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

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There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in i...

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Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focuse...

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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring...

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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and th...

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Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed f...

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Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...

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Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifli...

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The important thing is somehow to begin.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance th...

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We will not know unless we begin.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going t...

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn ne...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watch...

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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good...

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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...

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I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quot...

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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all ...

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Going home must be like going to render an account.

It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous...

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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

He who hesitates is last.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least h...

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The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them...

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You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will...

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I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especiall...

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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming...

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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged...

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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get...

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The test of any man lies in action.

If you want to do something do it!

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the...

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and ...

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons ...

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Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. ...

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My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to e...

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My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been m...

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To choose is also to begin.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.