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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,
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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
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"For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China."
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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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"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
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"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."
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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."
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"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."
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"I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act."
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"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
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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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"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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"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."
Act,
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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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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."
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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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"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."
38
"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."
38
"Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist."
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"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."
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"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."
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"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."
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"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."
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"I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do."
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"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
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"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
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"The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this."
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"The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go."
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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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