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Act Quotes
"There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act."
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"Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act."
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"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
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"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"
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"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."
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"Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech."
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"I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act."
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"Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance."
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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps."
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"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."
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"But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair."
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"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
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"But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act."
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"I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security."
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"For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself."
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"One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records."
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"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
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"Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them."
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"I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal."
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"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
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"I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9."
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"Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress."
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"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."
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"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
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"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
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