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Act Quotes
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
81
"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."
51
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
36
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
31
"The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act."
23
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
22
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."
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."
19
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
17
"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."
17
"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."
12
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
11
"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
10
"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
"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
7
"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
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
"I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one."
7
"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."
7
"I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act."
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
"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room."
Act,
7
"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."
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
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