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Act Quotes
"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."
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"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
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"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."
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"Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
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"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
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"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing."
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"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
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"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
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"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."
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"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."
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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act."
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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
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"I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act."
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"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."
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"Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico."
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"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
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"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
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