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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."

"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

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"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."

"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."

Robert Matsui, American Politician

Act, Countries, Past, States

6

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman

6

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

David Joseph Schwartz, American Businessman

Act, Mind, Thinking

6

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

6

"Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism."

"Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism."

Jerome Bruner, American Psychologist

6

"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."

"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."

Nick Mancuso, Italian Actor

6

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

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."

"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."

Karl Rove, American Politician

6

"Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones."

"Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones."

Rene Char, French Poet

6

"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

William Bennett, American Politician

6

"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."

"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."

Shirley Knight, American Actress

6

"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."

"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."

Kieran Culkin, American Actor

6

"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."

"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

6

"If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!"

"If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!"

Arno Penzias, American Scientist

Act, Machine, Want

6

"There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act."

"There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act."

Grace Napolitano, American Politician

Act, Congress, Reform, Security

6

"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

Deborah Tannen, American Sociologist

Act, Communication, Independence, Intimacy

6

"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."

"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

Act, Children, Giving, Schools

5

"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

Roger Wicker, American Politician

Act, Facts, Rights

5

"I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?"

"I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?"

Stacey Dash, American Actress

Act, School, Years

5

"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."

"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."

Albert Bushnell Hart, American Historian

5

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

5

"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

Henry George, American Economist

5

"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."

"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."

Charles D. Broad, British Philosopher

5

"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."

"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Act, Communism, World

5

"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."

"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

5

"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."

"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."

J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

Act, Commerce, Intimacy, Regret

5

"I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act."

"I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act."

Gerald Walpin, American Public Servant

Act, Integrity, Office

5

"I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002."

"I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002."

Ethan Suplee, American Actor

5

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Act, Emotion, Listening, Surrender

5

"I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool."

"I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool."

Jeremy London, American Actor

5

"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."

"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

5

"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

Act, Singing, Songs, Years

5

"Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe."

"Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe."

W. Averell Harriman, American Politician

Act, Congress, Direction, Europe

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"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."

"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."

Andy Grove, Hungarian Businessman

Act, Leaders, Pressure, Today

5

"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."

"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."

Michael Richards, American Actor

5

"A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another."

"A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another."

James MacGregor Burns, American Author

Act, Authority, Class, Revolution

5

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Act, First, Joy, Limits

5

"Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress."

"Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress."

Sue Kelly, American Politician

Act, Congress, Conservation, Effort

5

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

Scott Adams, American Cartoonist

Act, End, Kindness

5

"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."

"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."

John Edward Redmond, Irish Politician

Act, Falsehood, Force, Fraud

5

"The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough."

"The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough."

Mike Rogers, American Politician

Act, Decency, Rest

5

"We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it."

"We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it."

Jennifer Granholm, American Politician

Act, Force, Nothing, Republican

5

"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."

"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."

Mark Rydell, American Director

Act, Actor, Blind, Office

5

"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

Lukas Foss, German Composer

Act, Project, Want, Writing

5

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

Edward Dahlberg, American Novelist

Act, Evil, Motives, Result

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"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

Orson Welles, American Actor

Act, Theater, Want

5

"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

Act, Consciousness, Familiarity, May

5

"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."

"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."

William Scott, American Painter

Act, Expression, Liberty

5

"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."

"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."

Peter Brimelow, British Journalist

Act, Disaster, Will, Years

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