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Act Quotes
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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"The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation."
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
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"A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur."
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"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."
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"I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense."
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"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail."
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"A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another."
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"But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much."
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"You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that."
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"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act."
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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."
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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."
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"I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child."
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"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."
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"But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality."
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"I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind."
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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."
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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"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."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations."
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't."
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"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."
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"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."
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"When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested."
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"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."
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