Actively Quotes
333 quotes by 307 authors
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I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
— Kim Young-sam
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I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
— Cassandra Wilson
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting,…
— Richard Linklater
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I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
— Elizabeth McGovern
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Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made…
— Alexis Carrel
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Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing…
— Edward Bernays
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My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
— Westbrook Pegler
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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need…
— Daniel Dennett
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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays…
— Greil Marcus
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I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an…
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
— Howard Berman
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Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be…
— Lauren Groff
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and…
— Samuel Alexander
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China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its…
— Hu Jintao
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Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority…
— John Hoeven
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No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages.…
— Sebastian Junger
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It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
— Ken Jennings
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I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of…
— David Crystal
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