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When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. — William J. Clinton

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. — Dalton Trumbo

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. — Ansel Elgort

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. — Ashly Lorenzana

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit. — Gary LeVox

I think reading a translation is an act of faith. — Donna Leon

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. — Bill Owens

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. — Stanley Tucci

There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin. — Joel R. Beeke

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto De Moura

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act. — Xavier Becerra

the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. — Rachel Hunter

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills — Edie Falco

If you want to be clear, act. — Marcus Buckingham

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. — Cecily McMillan

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you. — Alan Cohen

There were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away. — Alice Munro

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly. — Joseph J. Romm

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan

Diabetes sucked. It was a blindfold juggling act between insulin, diet and exercise, and it ended with your last breath. Irritated — Toni Anderson

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the rest of her life. — Melina Marchetta

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself. — Felix Adler

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret. — Niccolo Machiavelli

No act is so private it does not seek applause. — John Updike

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them — Karen Marie Moning

I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy. — Pauly Shore

To act upon something so basic as love is not selfish. Everybody has the right to love whomever he happens to love. — Scylar Tyberius

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act. — Jen Kirkman

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. — George Weinberg

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. — Immortal Technique

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific. — Mike Krzyzewski

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act. — William Shakespeare

Izzy felt as though she'd wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic. — Tessa Dare

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way. — Madonna Ciccone

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. — Thomas Carlyle

And now it is time for a final act of courage. I urge you: March proudly into your own dream. — Tim O'Brien

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people. — Marco Rubio

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow — Ronald Reagan

Mistake is act happen unknowingly,Repetition of Mistake is no more mistake but its act of your choice which you try to hide behind the word "Mistake — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loving God is an act — Sunday Adelaja

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. — Willie Aames

Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death. — Johnnie Moore

It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane! — Ellery Adams

There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before. — Marco Rubio

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there. — Michael Zaslow

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system. — Marianne Williamson

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. — Ayn Rand

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other? — Mary Rose O'Reilley

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect. — David Gray

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. — Tom Watson

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. — Randy Alcorn

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one. — Paulo Coelho

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths. — Anodea Judith

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. — Harry Stack Sullivan

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act. — Ben Carson

We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party. — Kurt Vonnegut

You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right. — Patricia Briggs

Whatever you do, act as if you meant to do it even if you're sure you look like a fool. — Tracy Anne Warren

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting. — Eva Mendes

Act like a lady think like a man — Steve Harvey

Death is just the last scene of the last act. — Joyce Carol Oates

The balancing act is challenging at times. — Jeremy Jones

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny. — Samuel Smiles

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries. — Lisa Ann Walter

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch

The greatest act of love is to pay attention. — Diane Sawyer

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappe

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence. — Lech Walesa

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. — Caroline K. Simon

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. — Ann Coulter

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. — Brother Lawrence

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. — Gary Cooper

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. — Kamal Ravikant

I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it. — Jeb Bush

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer. — Griffin Dunne

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act. — Jerry Springer

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. — Lee Greenwood