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Victor Hugo To love is to act.
Aaron Eckhart When it gets down to it...
William James I will act as if what...
Joseph Joubert There was a time when the...
Kathy Griffin My act is based on my...
Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but not equally...
Henri Bergson Think like a man of action...
Friedrich Durrenmatt You can't take back an act...
Sophie Marceau Well it is sometimes difficult...
James E. Jones You sang in church, you know...
Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do...
Alison Lohman I just want to act. I...
Eric Bogosian I write, but I also act...
Joan of Arc Act, and God will act.
George Orwell In a time of universal deceit...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld It takes nearly as much...
Anna Friel I want more children but for...
George Orwell During times of universal deceit...
John W. Snow Higher energy prices act like...
Erich Fromm We all dream; we do not...
Aristotle Excellence is an art won by...
Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man...
William James Act as if what you do...
Thomas Jefferson Whenever you do a thing, act...
Plato Good people do not need laws...
Mohandas Gandhi A man who was completely...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is a great act of...
Buddha I do not believe in a...
Mason Cooley Every day begins with an act...
Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age: the crown of life...
Gilbert K. Chesterton I do not believe in a...
Victor Hugo A library implies an act of...
Erich Fromm There is only one meaning of...
George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of...
Bo Bennett Think before you act and act...
Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who...
Mohandas Gandhi A vow is a purely religious...
Vince Lombardi Live as if you were living...
Marcus Aurelius Do every act of your life...
Mohandas Gandhi The main purpose of life is...
George W. Bush This was not an act of...
Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who...
Jean Paul Be great in act, as you...
Abraham Lincoln The dogmas of the quiet past...
Drew Barrymore I never act my characters - I...
W. Clement Stone You always do what you want...
Victor Hugo One is not idle because one...
Mohandas Gandhi To give pleasure to a single...
Albert Einstein It is my conviction that...
George Bernard Shaw The possibilities are numerous once...
Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody...
Thomas Jefferson I never will, by any word...
Mohandas Gandhi Among the many misdeeds of the...
Jean-Paul Sartre We must act out passion before...
Bill Gates I believe that if you show...
Abraham Lincoln As our case is new, we...
Freddie Mercury But, you know, we spent two...
Abraham Lincoln The shepherd drives the wolf...
Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no...
Mohandas Gandhi I claim that human mind or...
Baltasar Gracian Be content to act, and leave...
Jon Porter Under current law volunteers who...
Sallust Think like a man of action...
Irene Cara When I act, I act. When...
George Orwell In times of universal deceit...
Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first...
Dale Carnegie Act enthusiastic and you will...
H. L. Mencken Morality is the theory that...
George Orwell The essential act of war is...
William James An act has no ethical quality...
Jon Porter The PATRIOT Act removed major...
Samuel Johnson Revenge is an act of passion...
Aristotle Quality is not an act, it...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Sometimes even to live is an...
Kahlil Gibran Most people who ask for advice...
Winston Churchill To build may have to be...
Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party...
Buddha However many holy words you...
Arthur Godfrey It's not an act, it's just...
Pablo Picasso One must act in painting as...
Jack Nicholson I know I can act. There...
Abraham Lincoln When I hear a man preach...
Andrew Carnegie Every act you have ever...
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents quickly realize that while...
William James Success or failure depends more...
Edmund Burke There is a boundary to men's...
Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the...
W. H. Auden All works of art are...
Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless...
Kirstie Alley For some reason I am one...
William James No matter how full a reservoir...
Henry Miller In the beginning was the Word...
Benjamin Disraeli There is no act of treachery...
Dan Millman Act happy, feel happy, be...
Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is...
Samuel Alexander Psychology is the science of...
Andres Serrano Being born, especially being born...
H. L. Mencken The difference between a moral...
Tony Robbins We will act consistently with...
Ambrose Bierce Deliberation, n.: The act of...
Lillian Hellman It is best to act with...
Anatole France To accomplish great things, we...
Little Richard I don't think a woman has...
Gerard Way So many people treat you like...
Blaise Pascal If we must not act save...
Javier Bardem I want to act because I...
Charles R. Swindoll We cannot change our past. We...
Abraham Lincoln These capitalists generally act harmoniously...
Ambrose Bierce Quotation, n: The act of...
Abdul Kalam We must think and act like...
Adam Schiff And in this community, as in...
Samuel Richardson Some children act as if they...
Wanda Sykes I guess because of my act...
Amber Tamblyn If you believe that God put...
Jack Bowman The act is truth. Nothing that...
Aesop No act of kindness, no matter...
Nicholas Lea I just wanted to act. I...
Samuel Richardson People who act like angels...
Shannen Doherty That's something I go through...
Francis Bacon People usually think according to...
Terrence Howard You start off thinking that...
Dennis Potter The thing about imagination is...
Puff Daddy I think that's good that I...
Jimmy Buffett People who think too much...
George Santayana To reform means to shatter one...
Truman Capote Life is a moderately good play...
George Orwell Every war when it comes, or...
Margaret J. Wheatley Yet we act as if simple...
Barry Goldwater The income tax created more...
Leonardo DiCaprio I like to be able to...
Lao Tzu The sage does not hoard. The...
William Blake Think in the morning. Act in...
Aristotle Thou wilt find rest from vain...
Immanuel Kant So act that your principle of...
Juliette Lewis I knew I could live no...
Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the...
John Warnock What I try to do is...
Henry Miller What distinguishes the majority of...
Stanley Tucci So yes, I hope to act...
Pablo Picasso Our goals can only be reached...
Sibel Edmonds The information I requested under...
Princess Diana Carry out a random act of...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The great act of faith is...
Albert Camus The only way to deal with...
Brigham Young Education is the power to...
Meg Tilly I didn't plan to act, but...
Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd...
Jeff Miller All are free to believe or...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The greatest act of faith is...
Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute...
Joseph Addison If we hope for what we...
Adolph Green It never became an act in...
Horace Mann It is well to think well...
Jennifer Aniston I was told to avoid the...
George Pataki But, you know, all I can...
Saint Augustine Passion is the evil in...
Fred Allen Treat employees like partners, and...
Robert Teeter This is against a background...
Harrison Ford It took me a long time...
John Sayles I like to act. I work...
Stephen Rea My kids act all the time...
William James If you want a quality, act...
Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first...
John Ensign I believe that voting is the...
Margaret J. Wheatley I think a major act of...
Edmund Burke All government, indeed every human...
Dennis Farina You can't act for the editing...
Horace The foolish are like ripples...
Samuel Alexander The thing of which the act...
Germaine Greer Act quickly, think slowly.
Gene Tierney I needed to be accepted, not...
Henry Miller One of the reasons why so...
James A. Baldwin When a man asks himself what...
Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes...
Larry Harvey They had been assigned a role...
Steve Garvey I always try to act as...
Alexander Hamilton Here, sir, the people govern...
George Woodcock When you act dramatically in...
Morris Chestnut I'm getting to the point where...
Alexander Pope Act well your part, there all...
Ayn Rand We are fast approaching the...
Larry David I managed to put together an...
Henry Ward Beecher Every charitable act is a...
Honore De Balzac It is only in the act...
Patrick Stewart I've met actors where you...
Ronald Reagan I favor the Civil Rights Act...
Tony Robbins We are the only beings on...
Lusia Strus College was a great time. I...
William Robertson Smith Every social act had a...
Kathy Griffin My act has always reflected...
Henry Miller All growth is a leap in...
Lara Flynn Boyle I am very fortunate to have...
Andy Kaufman What's real? What's not? That's...
Kelly Preston We are all trying to balance...
Carter G. Woodson I am ready to act, if...
Edward Thorndike When, instead of merely associating...
Alice Cooper It's a big flash of all...
Lou Ferrigno To be a champion you must...
Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you...
Eric Cantona Actually, I wanted to act even...
Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses...
Judi Dench I don't think anybody can be...
Skeet Ulrich There's a lot of reasons you...
Anna Letitia Barbauld But every act in consequence...
Kathleen Turner As I traveled from one country...
Harriet Martineau You had better live your best...
Ajay Devgan You get an image after you...
Immanuel Kant Live your life as though your...
Ida B. Wells The people must know before...
William James If you want a trait, act...
Annie Besant Better remain silent, better not...
Orson Welles I want to give the audience...
Jeanne Moreau Some people are addicts. If...
Andrei Platonov What if we all suddenly get...
Debra Wilson When I was five years old...
Immanuel Kant Act that your principle of...
June Jordan Poetry is a political act...
Philip Seymour Hoffman It's important to say that...
Gregory Hines It turned out to be exactly...
Alice Meynell Our fathers valued change for...
Suge Knight If you wanna cross somebody...
Val Kilmer The Secret Service is a...
Buddha We are formed and molded by...
Maurice Gibb I think we have to act...
Thomas Paine There are two distinct classes...
Tina Turner I don't want to act just...
Napoleon Bonaparte The act of policing is, in...
Willie Mays I always enjoyed playing ball...
Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes...
Little Richard But when I went on the...
Griffin Dunne I only got to be able...
Robert Baden-Powell Be Prepared... the meaning of...
Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts...
Thomas Paine The instant formal government is...
Jean Claude Van Damme In an action film you act...
Kwame Nkrumah Revolutions are brought about by...
Henry Ellis It has always been difficult...
Thomas Huxley Make up your mind to act...
Adam Rickitt I always wanted to act.
Daniel J. Boorstin Reading is like the sex act...
David Hume Men often act knowingly against...
Samuel Rutherford To believe Christ's cross to...
Dean Inge Faith is an act of rational...
David Joseph Schwartz How we think shows through in...
Jean Jacques Rousseau However great a man's natural...
Alexis Arguello Not many people do at the...
Simone de Beauvoir Change your life today. Don't...
Niccolo Machiavelli It is necessary for him who...
Obie Trice I don't want to be an...
B. F. Skinner The consequences of an act...
Dave Barry In 1765, Parliament passed the...
Peter Mandelson Too often we think we can...
Bob Nelson Just the act of listening...
Evan Dando Rock stars wanting to write is...
Lord Robertson You've got to be able to...
Sigmund Freud The act of birth is the...
W. Somerset Maugham Considering how foolishly people act...
Isabelle Huppert It really helps you to go...
Christopher Morley Act like you expect to get...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge A poet ought not to pick...
Harry Stack Sullivan It is easier to act yourself...
Sigmund Freud A belligerent state permits itself...
Joseph Glanvill The belief of our Reason is...
Andre Maurois If you create an act, you...
Simon Pegg Also, if you watch the film...
Lukas Foss The creative act is like...
Josh Charles I actually did start performing...
Howie Mandel The success of any stand-up...
John C. Danforth Japan is a great nation. It...
Gael Garcia Bernal I always wanted to act, but...
Kevin Costner I think these movies are as...
Friedrich August von Hayek To act on the belief that...
Mary-Kate Olsen Our career is a dream. I...
James A. Baldwin To act is to be committed...
Jan Schakowsky The Health Centers Renewal Act...
A. Bartlett Giamatti A liberal education is at the...
Steve Nash I am a huge believer in...
Jules Feiffer Getting out of bed in the...
Max Baer He hit me 18 times while...
George Washington War - An act of violence whose...
Thor Heyerdahl Circumstances cause us to act...
Wynton Marsalis Only a few act - the rest...
Jean Cocteau Commissions suit me. They set...
Margaret J. Wheatley Listening is such a simple act...
Pope John Paul II Marriage is an act of will...
Mariel Hemingway When child actors act well...
Todd Berry I would call it a comedy...
John McCain Glory is not a conceit. It...
Uta Hagen The Country Girl was the only...
Barack Obama I opposed the Defense of...
L. Neil Smith People in the mass media tend...
Aeschylus For the impious act begets...
Simone Weil A hurtful act is the...
Omar N. Bradley This is as true in everyday...
Lafcadio Hearn Of course, the simple explanation...
Alfred North Whitehead No period of history has ever...
Jennifer Beals I'm just talking specifically of...
Jack Welch Giving people self-confidence is...
Robert Wyatt I play music a lot but...
Bill Cosby Having a child is surely the...
Eleanor Roosevelt When will our consciences grow...
Marcus Aurelius The act of dying is one...
Piper Perabo Let me tell you who I...
Geena Davis When my friends and I would...
Charlie Sheen Slash sat me down at his...
Robbie Fowler I was a boy, suddenly treated...
Edward Thorndike There is no reasoning, no...
J. D. Salinger They didn't act like people...
Aesop The level of our success is...
Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe...
Kathy Acker On the surface we all act...
Peter Camejo I really think the Patriot Act...
Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature...
Michael Richards I don't know, in view of...
Jo Bonner The Inspector General issued six...
Michael K. Simpson The original PATRIOT Act greatly...
Ed Harris I like to act with people...
Christina Aguilera I want to be an all...
Brian Eno If you want to make someone...
Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given...
Arno Penzias If you don't want to be...
Lenny Kravitz People feel they have to live...
Lester B. Pearson And I have lived since - as...
Friedrich Durrenmatt Communism is a proposition to...
Donna Mills I was always cutting dialogue...
Omar Bongo The African Union has to act...
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has...
Jeanne Shaheen There's definitely a world view...
Stanley Crouch There's this obsession with the...
Vivien Leigh When I come into the theatre...
Charles Hodge The functions of these elders...
Edward Coke Those who consent to the act...
Helen Prejean The important thing is that...
Charles de Secondat Thus the creation, which seems...
Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is...
Mike Epps She didn't break his heart...
Marguerite Moreau I didn't need clothes. I was...
Samuel Alexander In the act of perception there...
Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the...
Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic...
Robert D. Owens You would violate usage only...
Jack Lord There's really nothing wrong with...
Origen When Jesus then is with the...
Nick Lampson My primary work was to promote...
Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Have the courage to act...
Sallust Before you act, consider; when...
Manuel Puig I do believe that reading can...
Hans Urs von Balthasar Our situation today shows that...
Robert Mueller Prior to the passage of the...
Bashar al-Assad It would be a mistake to...
Julian Clary I knew that this was what...
L. Neil Smith We are expected to believe...
Paul Simon We just did what we'd done...
Emile M. Cioran To act is to anchor in...
Adlai E. Stevenson To act coolly, intelligently and...
Billy Sheehan Be honest with yourself and...
Andrea Dworkin You think intercourse is a...
William Jennings Bryan The Imperial German Government will...
Mick Ronson I've always thought that the...
Henry Hazlitt The art of economics consists...
Mark Rydell He's very alive in a scene...
Stacey Dash I went to my last three...
Anais Nin If all of us acted in...
Blair Underwood When I doing dinner theater in...
Henry A. Wallace The fascists in most Latin...
Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel...
Kim Weston I'm not photographing the model...
Audrey Hepburn I was asked to act when...
Cliff Stearns The Spy Act strikes a right...
John Ashcroft The Patriot Act allows and...
Scott Adams Remember there's no such thing...
Marcus Aurelius And thou wilt give thyself...
Thomas Merton Yet it is in this loneliness...
Timothy West There were loads of plays...
Morgan Freeman I knew at an early age...
Maxwell Maltz To change a habit, make a...
David Hyde Pierce Maybe it's because I'm getting...
Gael Garcia Bernal Doing films in Latin America...
Whoopi Goldberg You know, be an actor because...
Thomas J. Peters The simple act of paying...
John Stuart Mill What distinguishes the majority of...
Ted Danson We are all in this together...
Jim Dale I'd get more applause than...
Corbin Bernsen I'd like to direct some, act...
Ryszard Kapuscinski There is a fundamental difference...
Johannes P. Muller The essential attribute of a...
Davy Crockett We must not permit our respect...
Chris Chocola Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the...
James S. Coleman In a high school, the norms...
Jim Harrison I asked a French critic a...
Benicio Del Toro When some people get parts...
Javier Bardem The only thing I can do...
Morris Raphael Cohen It is not impossible to think...
Roger Wicker Since 2001, the Patriot Act...
John Stuart Mill We have a right, also, in...
Tina Yothers When entertainment was begun, during...
Bill Owens I believe the Patriot Act...
Howard Staunton The Pawn moves only one square...
Marcus Aurelius Execute every act of thy life...
Lukas Haas I did the movies because I...
Marian Wright Edelman People who don't vote have no...
John Moody The public conviction that a...
Charles D. Broad The pure natural scientist is...
Patricia Ireland The Violence Against Women Act...
Anatole France It is human nature to think...
Max Weber Only by strict specialization can...
William Weld One of the functions of...
Elton Gallegly Among other things, the Real...
Isaac Disraeli The act of contemplation then...
Charles Darwin We can allow satellites, planets...
Drew Barrymore When you've been locked up in...
Michael Korda Act well at the moment, and...
Mike Myers I have very happy memories of...
Kit Bond If we don't act now, the...
Silvan Shalom I'd like to ask you: what...
Samuel Alexander It may be added, to prevent...
A. P. Herbert People must not do things for...
Richard King If a violent act towards a...
Manuel Puig One performs a very different...
Yitzhak Rabin I believe that it is my...
Maria Montessori If an educational act is to...
Jo Bonner In the time since passage of...
Mike Rogers The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act...
Joseph Ratzinger The Cross is the approbation...
Robert Anthony Courage is simply the willingness...
Robert Mueller People talk about the Patriot...
Niccolo Machiavelli The fact is that a man...
Jo Bonner While the debate on the...
Ron Paul Having federal officials, whether judges...
Joseph Rotblat I have to bring to your...
Phil Ochs It is wrong to expect a...
George McGovern Politics is an act of faith...
Robert Jackson If there is any fixed star...
Dale Carnegie If you want to be enthusiastic...
Bell Hooks It's in the act of having...
Laura Bush The power of a book lies...
Moliere Every good act is charity. A...
Doc Hastings In addition to demanding answers...
Thomas Mann For to be poised against...
Sarah Polley I still feel that a movie...
Henry A. Kissinger No country can act wisely...
Martha Graham Practice means to perform, over...
Robert Sternberg ACT and SAT each have their...
Randy Neugebauer The Secure Fence Act, which...
Cuba Gooding, Jr. There are roles I want that...
Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic...
Wilfrid Laurier I claim for Canada this, that...
John Henry Newman Let us act on what we...
Don Young We wonder why we have got...
James Allen The law of harvest is to...
Kenny Baker I've been in show business for...
Tom Wilkinson You can't do things for money...
Charles Kettering Believe and act as if it...
Paulo Coelho Life was always a matter of...
Don DeLillo In a repressive society, a...
Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that...
Philip Zimbardo I have been primarily interested...
Barbara Deming We believe, in fact, that the...
Condoleezza Rice We're in a new world. We're...
Mark Ruffalo Do theater. Because you'll develop...
Joe Baca The School Energy Crisis Relief...
Bobby Scott It is difficult to overstate...
Marsha Blackburn Yes, what has happened is we...
Jackie Cooper I would also like to act...
F. Scott Fitzgerald Only remember west of the...
Roy Barnes In my first year as governor...
Richard H. Davis To-night I am going to...
John Zorn I don't control it at all...
Pope Paul VI Of all human activities, man's...
Hermann Ebbinghaus One needs but to say that...
Neil Young This thing called Patriot Act...
Frances Farmer If a person is treated like...
Paul de Man The ambivalence of writing is...
Rick Danko I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near...
Christopher Dawson Unlike other peoples the United...
Maxwell Maltz For imagination sets the goal...
Katharine Hepburn When I started out, I didn't...
Jonathan Mayhew I now add, farther, that the...
Dane Cook I am an observer, I like...
Charles W. Pickering The REAL ID Act will protect...
Veronica Franco Women have not yet realized...
Jena Malone Some locations are so terrible...
Tina Weymouth I think the idea of having...
Chris Chocola If we do not act now...
Margaret Mahy Being a librarian certainly helped...
Paul Farmer For me, an area of moral...
Sue Kelly With the enactment of the...
Mitch McConnell We need to strengthen and save...
Jim Gerlach Since its enactment in the...
Peter Drucker Innovation is the specific instrument...
Friedrich Durrenmatt Resistance at all cost is the...
Daniel J. Evans Actually, as that first association...
Barbara Deming The free man must be born...
Melissa George I hardly knew anything when I...
St. Jerome Act as if the maxim of...
Studs Terkel Someone who does an act. In...
Harold Ramis It's like the old rule-if...
Johann Most While we have entertained the...
Jerry Falwell If I were doing something that...
Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got...


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