Act Quotes
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.
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Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.
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I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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We’re not acting clearly, we’re not talking clearly, we’ve got problems.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.
