Act Quotes
8447 quotes by 5094 authors
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When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of…
— Charles Eisenstein
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When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't…
— Reinhard Bonnke
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I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.
— Charles C. Krulak
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,…
— Marjorie Garber
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The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time,…
— Rolf Potts
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Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.
— Rolf Potts
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on…
— Yiyun Li
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That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or…
— Anton Myrer
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society…
— Akbar Ganji
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Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an…
— Lawrence Venuti
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While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges…
— Stephen Batchelor
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From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
— Sandra Steingraber
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We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required…
— Sandra Steingraber
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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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I’m not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
— Lady Gaga
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You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through…
— Joss Whedon
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what…
— Harrison Ford
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Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
— Harrison Ford
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
— Ian Somerhalder
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It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to…
— Isabelle Huppert
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