Act Quotes
8447 quotes by 4801 authors
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New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
— Pharoahe Monch
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
— Johan Huizinga
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When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We…
— Lenore Terr
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Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.
— Saul Bass
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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage…
— Barack Obama
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I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers,…
— Harry S. Truman
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One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the…
— John F. Kennedy
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I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…
— Ronald Reagan
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand…
— Herbert Hoover
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My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from…
— Barack Obama
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There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes…
— Carroll Quigley
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Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets…
— Paul Hawken
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To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to…
— Ayn Rand
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the…
— Robert Sternberg
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I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as…
— Corliss Lamont
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I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever…
— Charles Spurgeon
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
— Andy Kaufman
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It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In…
— Anthony Romero
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