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403 quotes by 372 authors

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those… — Aristotle
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted… — Margaret Atwood
I acted in millions of TV shows. — Sebastian Bach
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be… — Berenice Abbott
I always sang, I always acted, I always played. — Theodore Bikel
In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy… — Jo Brand
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and… — Louis D. Brandeis
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's… — Sandra Bullock
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted. — Steve Buscemi
I've acted professionally since I was 16. — Nicolas Cage
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give… — Giacomo Casanova
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of… — Salman Rushdie
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. — Malcolm X
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we… — Laurence Olivier
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison

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