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• Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  Adam Driver

  Girl, Actors, Controversial

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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Winning, Issues, People

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• I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

  Terrell Davis

  Mind, Trying, Body

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• I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Trying, Steps

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• I've always been extremely physically active.

  Danai Gurira

  Physically Active

  "Danai Gurira Talks THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, Playing the Action Hero Michonne and Wielding the Sword". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2012.

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• There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

  Cindy Gallop

  Children, Decision, Realization

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  Carla Bruni

  Family Love, Feminist, Family Life

  "'My generation doesn't need feminism': Former French first lady Carla Bruni says a woman's place is in the home" By Steve Nolan, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 26, 2012.

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• I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Writing, Imagination

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.

  Queen Victoria

  People, Aberdeen, Hills

  Queen Victoria, Arthur Helps (2010). “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Discovery, New Work

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another.

  Peter Dickens

  People, Creative, Elements

  Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.15, Temple University Press

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• I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Basketball, Week, Habit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Records, Lines

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• Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, People, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• I get to stay active and that is my job at the moment, so I can't complain.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Jobs, Complaining, Moments

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• I’ve really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can’t even express to you how happy it has made me.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Animal, Made, Feels

  "‘Dancing With The Stars’ Carrie Ann Inaba Says There’s No Feud With Maks". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Credit, Pillars, Financial

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• I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.

  Sebastian Junger

  Writing, Training, Mountain

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• I've always had an active imagination.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Imagination

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• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  Camilla Luddington

  Running, Weight, Gains

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

  Katie Leclerc

  People, Community, Stronger

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