Acts Quotes
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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
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We must become just be doing just acts.
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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.
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When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.
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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
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He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
