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Act Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
395
"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."
239
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
179
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
165
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
159
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
157
"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."
96
"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."
92
"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,
90
"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
87
"If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft."
85
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
80
"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."
76
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
75
"It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act."
73
"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."
73
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
73
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
73
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
71
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
71
"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
71
"Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence."
69
"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."
Act,
68
"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,
67
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
66
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
66
"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
66
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
65
"It's a huge responsibility being a solo act."
64
"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."
64
"I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration."
63
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
61
"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."
60
"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."
60
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