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Act Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
96
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
64
"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."
63
"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,
43
"If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft."
40
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
39
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
33
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
27
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
26
"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."
22
"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."
22
"When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since."
Act,
21
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
20
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
18
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
17
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
14
"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
13
"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."
13
"The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security."
13
"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
13
"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."
13
"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
13
"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
12
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
12
"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."
Act,
12
"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."
12
"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"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."
11
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