That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.
I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of the wall, and I'm always scared that you're not good like when you are in real when you act.
As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
