- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Act Quotes
On acting, performing, and the difference between talk and action.
This page gathers quotes that use the word act in different senses - the nervous energy of live performance, and the question of who should be trusted to act as an advocate in a courtroom. Readers who like these might also enjoy Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- Disagreements
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they're not supposed to act on them.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half my life is an act of revision.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.
- Us
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020