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Act Quotes
"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."
Act,
3
"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."
Act,
3
"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
3
"In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency."
3
"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
3
"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."
Act,
3
"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."
3
"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."
3
"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."
3
"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
3
"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."
3
"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
3
"Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting."
3
"If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft."
3
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it."
2
"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."
2
"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
2
"It's a huge responsibility being a solo act."
2
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
2
"It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues."
2
"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."
2
"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
Act,
2
"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
2
"The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle."
2
"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."
2
"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
2
"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."
2
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
2
"I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal."
Act,
2
"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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