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Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
John Paul Stevens
Duty
State
Officials
Legislators
Public
Act
Public Officials
Including
Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
John Pearson
God
Blessing
Power
Like
Act
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
John Perry Barlow
Government
Legal
Made
First
Awareness
Changes
Project
Possible
Total
Databases
Mostly
First Place
Sort
Because
Access
Diabolical
Limits
Private
Were
Truly
Off
Commercial
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Place
Which
Act
Now
Consequence
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
John Podhoretz
Sector
Must
Obama
Hurting
Economic
Economic Growth
Step
Where
Public
Explanation
Act
Public Sector
Washington
Growth
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
John Roberts
Health
Financial
Care
Pay
Penalty
Characterized
Individuals
Obtaining
Health Insurance
Insurance
Affordable
May
Tax
Certain
Requirement
Act
Reasonably
Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.
John Romaniello
Good
Made
Exceptionally
Disagreements
Between
Come
Also
Deal
Makers
Deals
Making
Up
Authors
Whenever
After
Agents
Really
Act
Intermediary
Helpful
Publishers
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
John Sayles
Work
Book
Scale
Like
Agent
Act
Acting
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill
Men
Few
Distinguishes
Majority
According
Inability
Act
Beliefs
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu
Life
Art
Business
Blame
Cold
Others
Back
Spending
Deficits
No Business
Bad
Obama
Blaming
Simpler
Had
He
Investment
Economy
Iraq
Refined
Art Form
Wall
Wall Street
Afghanistan
Tax
Form
Tax Cuts
Barack
Bush
Cuts
Then
Much
Act
Wars
Street
The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
John Tavener
Music
Myself
Rain
Three
Improvise
Sense
Imitate
Would
Inside
Something
Outside
Thunder
Like
Also
Another
Audience
Always
Maternal
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Grandfather
Act
Used
Even
Applaud
Things
Presence
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
Judgment
Sense
Last-Minute
Member
Tried
No Reason
Individual
Outraged
Through
House
Principles
Returns
Am
Traditional
Provision
American
Confidentiality
Common
Tax
Breach
Common Sense
Tax Returns
Act
Measure
Reason
Violates
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
John Warnock
People
Try
Problems
Those
Direct
Various
Factor
Computers
How
Get
Information
Then
Act
Product
Use
Groups
Technologies
Applied
People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.
John Wells
Me
You
People
Before
Extraordinary
Say
Telling
People Say
Unbelievably
Direct
Over
Talent
Meryl
Meryl Streep
She
Well
How
Than
Wandering
Anyone
Worked
Working
Act
Hard
Works
Hard-Working
Ever
Harder
Her
I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
John Zorn
Me
Musicians
Control
Group
Everyone
Tell
See
Device
Like
Make
Up
Want
Then
Act
On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
Johnny Depp
Family
You
People
Circus
Like
Becomes
Get
Closer
Working
Act
Film
Travelling
Start
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine
Flu
Year
President
Once
Adequate
Ensure
Administration
No Excuse
Risk
Simply
Supply
Failed
Excuse
Because
Without
American
Going
Again
Us
Act
Vaccine
Millions
While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.
Jon Landau
Beatles
Andrew
Martin
Clean
Clean Up
Had
Around
Always
George
Up
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
While
Act
You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.
Jon Polito
Alone
You
Crew
Setting
Props
Fellow
Course
Around
Act
Use
Your
Actor
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
Jon Porter
Legal
Law
Protection
Organization
Absolutely
Volunteer
Volunteers
Wishes
Nonprofit
Covered
American
Official
Current
Current Law
Average
Average American
Working
Act
Who
Therefore
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
Jonathan Dimbleby
Matter
Tomorrow
Will
Reap
Pumping
Our
Though
Collectively
Atmosphere
Civilisation
Obliterate
Simply
Individually
Alternative
Reduce
Am
Still
Children
Which
Urgently
Whirlwind
Certain
Act
Now
Carbon
Levels
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
Jonathan Groff
You
Musical
Worst
Sing
Because
Always
Auditions
Act
Stressful
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Jonathan Kozol
Justice
Opportunity
Take Advantage
Year
Congress
Later
Federal
Take
Advantage
Opening
Left
Child
Behind
Created
Act
Kennedy
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
Good
People
Obey
Argument
Submit
Duty
Design
Add
Rulers
Direct
Proves
Proving
Contradiction
Contrary
Office
Public
Far
Public Good
Act
Apostle
Farther
Now
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dignity
Memory
Book
Law
Radical
Living
Our
Our Lives
Embarking
Ancient
Torah
Telling
Give
Perennial
Attempt
Empathy
Merely
Text
Human
Being
Story
Act
Foundational
Lives
Here
Jewish
I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.
Jonathan Turley
You
Before
Richard Nixon
President
Way
Nixon
Obama
Allowed
He
Know
Said
Always
Been
Decades
Wanted
Barack
Barack Obama
Richard
Really
Act
Fought
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.
Jonathan Zittrain
Service
Government
You
Thanks
Tell
Has-Been
Details
Able
Some
About
Online
Federal
Federal Government
Part
Demand
Been
Providers
Patriot
Patriot Act
Act
Your
Activities
Service Providers
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