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Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.

In real life, however, you don\'t react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981. This action delayed an Iraqi bomb by at least 15 years. The whole world condemned Israel - only to realize later how farsighted it had been.

I\'d love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.

I didn\'t much care for the \'Dawn\' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn\'t anything like my \'Dawn Of The Dead.\'

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can\'t. The moment you mention the word \'zombie,\' it\'s got to be, \'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.\'

Our minds are like proactive alchemists, transforming the lead of thought into the gold of accomplishment through the crucible of action.

The brain does not merely respond to the world; it converses with it, each action a word, each achievement a sentence in the dialogue of existence.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

The key to overcoming anxiety is not through introspection, but through structured action and relearning, one step at a time.

I think what you can see is this is a president of action. I mean Donald Trump is not one that\'s going to sit there and talk for too long. If he thinks someone is wrong, he\'s going to deal with it.

What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it\'s not in personas. It\'s in actions and it\'s what we do. And that\'s why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.

I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I\'d love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they\'re good stories.

I don\'t really like talking. I like to execute. I\'m not a talking person. I\'m an action person.

The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one\'s particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

A grievance is a political action. It\'s not just African-Americans.

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn\'t be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that\'s making great movies and going, \'Oh, we see the difference - we\'re using a different camera.\'

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

I\'m a big Harrison Ford fan. I kind of pattern a lot of things after him, the way that he\'s an every man. He\'s one of the biggest action stars ever, but he transcends that term because he\'s such a good actor. I tend to really appreciate the stuff he\'s done.

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I\'ve done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I\'m kind of defined as an action person.

We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there\'s no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.

Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.

Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding... or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.

\'Jack Ryan\' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.