Act Quotes
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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I try to act out of faith.
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I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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People think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.
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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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It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.
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I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.
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They lack the ultimate audacity.” Caldwell nodded, frowning. “They possess a certain inventiveness, they plan superbly, they execute with ferocity and care. But then there comes that moment.” He glanced at his son-in-law with a quick, fond smile. “That terribly lonely moment when you must make a further decision—a huge one. One that has nothing to do with everything you’ve anticipated. With the whole future in doubt, with hopelessly inadequate information and exhausted from the strain of the battles already fought, you have to summon up all your energies and decide, quickly and clearly; and act.” He took his pipe from his mouth. “That’s where they break down.
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That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
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If after a reasonable time passes it becomes clear that the PA (Palestinian Authority) is not willing to accept these principles, we will need to begin to act.
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In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
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The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Act your age, not your shoe size.
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“I think it was the size of the dream and the willingness to act on it. Ravana dreamt big and strove ruthlessly to achieve it.”
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.
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The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.
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If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
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It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
