- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.
- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act - we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That's not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.
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- Nov 07, 2020