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Act Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
76
"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."
49
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
31
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
30
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
20
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
19
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
19
"Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him."
18
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
16
"I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in."
14
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
12
"The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security."
11
"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
9
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
9
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
Act,
9
"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
7
"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."
Act,
7
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
7
"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
7
"I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."
7
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
7
"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
7
"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."
7
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Act,
6
"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
6
"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
6
"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
6
"I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically."
6
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
6
"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
6
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