What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
The Secure 5G and Beyond Act is a clear step toward developing a nationwide gameplan to mitigate the threat posed by foreign-based 5G companies.
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
My standard comment is, ‘If you don’t want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don’t act like Homer Simpson.’
I get to act out two roles on ‘The Legend of the Blue Sea,’ including one as a con man, and so I’ll be able to show many diverse sides to me.
I’m always amazed at how much people ‘get’ when I’m performing overseas. I’ve never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I’ve taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That’s been really useful.
I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.
I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.
The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act.
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.
I’m always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
You don’t pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.
I really don’t act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won’t ring true. No matter what the script says, there’s no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There’s no make-believe. It’s for real.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
The sooner we act, the sooner we can start turning the tables on cyberattackers.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can’t.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn’t mean you have to act science fiction.
Because ‘Gob’ was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work.
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
