I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
I know me, and I know my heart. I know what the Lord expects. I know what a Christian's supposed to act like, but you can't act it.
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.
Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.
It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.
The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
