Act Quotes
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It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
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Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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He is a class act and has 20 hundreds from 70 Tests. He is a bit under weather but it happens to everyone. I back him to come good soon.
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I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
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Your hair is an act of God.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
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We're a festival that was started because of an act of war, so we have always had films and panel discussions that bring up difficult subjects.
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In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
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The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
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Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools can be penalized because of those tests. We could be considered as failures and sanctioned.
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When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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There are two possible mistakes: One is to go on too long, and one is not to go on long enough. And, it's a very difficult balancing act.
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
