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After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their… — Jon Stewart
Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions… — Mick LaSalle
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately. — Matt Gonzalez
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going… — David Herbert Donald
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. — Elizabeth Montagu
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. — Marya Hornbacher
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around… — Malcolm X
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not… — Confucius
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. — Oliver Goldsmith
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely… — Gregory Bateson
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or… — J. William Fulbright
I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the… — Patrick Macnee
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting… — Amanda Plummer
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the… — Condoleezza Rice
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority. — John Leguizamo
If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he… — Jim Lehrer
What if we just acted like everything was easy? — Mary Anne Radmacher
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't… — Fred Melamed
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on… — George Mikes

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