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Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
John Edward Redmond
Lasted
Hundred
Hundred Years
Solemn
Destroyed
Carried
Fraud
Parliament
Know
Well
Force
Gentlemen
Years
Falsehood
Irish
Five
Eighteen
After
Which
Declaration
Act
Union
Treachery
Disregarded
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign
Democracy
People
Liberty
Voting
Tyranny
Will
Face
President
Extreme
Danger
Enslavement
Given
Over
Globe
Around
Iraqis
Ordinary
Bush
Act
Choose
Belief
Chance
Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.
John Francis Daley
Love
Dreams
You
Jokes
Generation
Amazing
Jim
Jim Carrey
Out
Would
My Generation
Had
He
Like
Know
House
Him
Felt
Boy
His
Pitching
Just
Being
Literally
Act
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
John Frankenheimer
God
You
Think
Everyone
Direct
Write
Know
Most
Edit
Editors
Expert
Them
Hollywood
Act
When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.
John Gavin
Me
Building
Through
Knew
Leading
Doing
Up
Walked
Roles
Quit
Act
Sudden
Actor
Shut
Shut Up
Universal
Gate
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
John Goodman
Sit
Rather
Lazy
Boy
Just
Act
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
John Grierson
Important
Though
More
Wrong
Perilous
Opinion
Understand
Opinions
Times
Than
Often
Happens
Conflicting
Which
Act
Right
Two
The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.
John Hickenlooper
Health
Not Perfect
Care
Nation
Our
Recognition
System
Perfect
Point
Part
Health Care
Because
Health Care System
Passed
Been
Improve
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Working
Act
Large
Using
Large Part
Starting
Starting Point
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.
John Hurt
Time
School
First
Say
High
Bizarre
Would
Would-Be
Understatement
Real
Very
Wanted
Decided
Act
English
Prep
I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
John Hurt
Age
World
Young
Nine
No Idea
About
Had
Knew
Idea
Know
How
Go
Very
Young Age
Wanted
Bigger
Place
Then
Much
Really
Act
I didn't want to teach. I wanted to act. It was quite a long and difficult road to get there but very thrilling when I did.
John Hurt
Long
Difficult
Thrilling
Road
Very
Get
Did
Quite
Want
Wanted
Act
Teach
Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.
John J. McLaughlin
Fear
College
Entered
Atmosphere
Colleges
Restraint
Student
Terms
Also
Empowering
Prior
Offending
Offense
Certain
Act
Communities
Speakers
Many
Describing
Elements
Speech
Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.
John Kasich
Together
Wish
Doing
Get
Ohio
Act
Washington
The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.
John Kline
Best
First
Increase
Immediate
Critical
Solution
Best Interests
Threat
Borrowers
Rate
Step
Clear
Takes
Toward
Long-Term
First Step
Making
Reduction
Providing
Stability
Move
While
Interest
Taxpayers
Interests
Act
Serve
Need
The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
John Kline
Job
Accountability
Taxpayer
Programs
Job Creators
Consolidate
Would
Investment
Development
Over
Ineffective
Dollars
Role
Improve
Improvement
Decisions
Workforce
Act
Use
Enhance
Creators
Dozens
Eliminate
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
John Larroquette
Somewhere
Stage
Other
Broadway
Puppet
Only
Thai
Than
Done
The Only Thing
Theater
Act
Actor
Thing
'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.
John Lasseter
Character
You
Learning
Yourself
People
Car
Be Yourself
Our
Our Lives
Say
About
Emotional
Well
Himself
Always
Gotta
Times
Where
Story
Should
Act
Lives
Differently
Core
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
John Leguizamo
Love
Independent
Independent Film
Act
Film
Actor
A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.
John Lewis
Government
People
Sunday
Demanding
Few
Cities
More
Days
Demonstration
Were
Bloody
Than
American
American Cities
After
Act
If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes.
John Lithgow
Me
People
Seriously
Enjoy
Say
Seem
Something
Wrong
Ecstatic
Call
Overdo
Yes
Stop
Mean
Ask
Act
Reason
Fun
Why
Playing
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
John Marshall
Constitution
Any
Controls
Legislative
Repugnant
Act
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
John Marshall
Nature
Rights
People
Law
Considered
Those
Must
Only
Absolute
Divest
Powers
Within
Repeal
Contract
Vested
Conferred
Cannot
Them
Agents
Act
Acts
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
John McCarthy
Great
Peace
People
World
Some People
Out
Some
Through
Most
Force
Quarrelsome
Movement
Act
Peace Movement
Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.
John McEnroe
Great
Class
Act
Champions
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
John Muir
Citizen
Half
Dust
Hundred
One Act
States
Could
Take
Obtain
Well
Timber
Been
Dollars
Up
Stone
Any
Sixty
Which
Title
Ashes
Land
Might
Acre
Acres
Act
Paying
United
United States
Two
We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
John O. Brennan
Law
Will
Nation
Laws
Bounds
Within
Always
Act
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