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Act Quotes
"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."
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"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."
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"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."
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"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles."
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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."
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"I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002."
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"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act."
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"I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else."
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"The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks."
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"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."
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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy."
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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Act,
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
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"It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues."
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"The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted."
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"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
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"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
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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."
38
"The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security."
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"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
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"But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together."
37
"I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up."
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"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
Act,
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"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."
37
"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory."
37
"The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years."
37
"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."
Act,
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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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"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."
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