Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. . . . The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.
I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. '
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.
I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again. " Because I know I can do it.
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.