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Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.
As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.
On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.
I always work on the principle that if my heart and my head are together on an issue, write it, say it.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.
In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.