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Act Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
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"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
9
"If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned."
4
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
4
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
4
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
3
"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
2
"I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act."
1
"If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
1
"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
1
"The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation."
1
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail."
1
"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."
1
"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
1
"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles."
"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."
"The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it."
"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."
"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
"Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
"The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research."
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."
"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."
"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
"It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act."
"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
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