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Translation is an act of recreation.
Ken Liu
Translation
Recreation
Act
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
Ken Liu
Performance
Fellow
Readers
Am
Doing
West
Really
Translator
Act
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
Respect
Guidance
Will
State
Secretary
Section
London
Greater
Exercise
Undertake
Office
Authority
Any
Regard
Ethical
Act
Standards
Functions
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
Kendrick Meek
Hope
Rights
Legal
Defiance
Country
Sense
Every
Society
Civil
Civil Rights
Facing
Inspired
Parks
Generations
Leaders
Discrimination
American
Brave
Created
Act
American Society
Foundation
Every American
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Kenneth Burke
Degree
Different Kinds
State
Possible
High
Status
Corresponding
Kinds
Classification
Industrial
Make
Without
Continuity
Different
Social
Required
Act
Many
Specialization
When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'
Kenneth Cranham
You
Wait
Living
Thinking
Enough
Say
Out
Like
Look
Till
Hear
Lines
Jump
Get
Want
Really
Act
Forward
Lucky
Things
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike
Truth
Guilt
Believe
Sees
Price
Led
Refusing
Act
Avoid
Pays
Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
Kenneth Langone
People
Country
Rich
One Country
Another
Same
Rich People
Act
In WWE, a gay person is usually portrayed like some sort of comedy act to be mocked and laughed at. The world's not like that anymore.
Kenny Omega
Gay
World
Comedy
Laughed
Some
Like
Sort
WWE
Mocked
Person
Anymore
Act
Portrayed
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
Kenzaburo Oe
Reading
Sense
Sleeping
Trees
Security
Find
Able
Could
Never
Indoors
Felt
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
Forest
Mountain
Going
Which
Justify
Act
Among
Night
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.
Kerry James Marshall
Political
Kind
Always
Political Act
Revision
Model
Any
Established
Act
Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.
Kerry Stokes
Balance
Opportunities
Energy
Our
Appropriate
Broaden
Sector
Ability
Diversify
Area
Investment
Sheet
Provides
Us
Act
Including
Portfolio
Gas
I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.
Kerry Washington
Myself
People
Think
Enough
Sexy
See
Able
Come
Always
Am
Still
Being
Theater
Plan
Really
Act
Acting
Even
Film
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin Bacon
Work
You
Become
About
Could
Talk
Get
Movies
Act
Actor
This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.
Kevin Brady
Looking
About
Fed
Looking Forward
Sound
Dollar
Role
Should
Bill
Act
Forward
Play
I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.
Kevin Brady
Work
Health
Better
Care
Long
Important
Think
Take
Step
Long-Term
Term
Make
Health Care
How
Replacement
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Whether
Act
Medicaid
Medicare
Save
People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.
Kevin Hart
Family
You
People
See
About
Pictures
Like
Know
Talk
Hear
Celebrities
Going
Where
Want
Act
Your
We've grown up with the idea that even when you're at the top, act like you're at the bottom.
Kevin Jonas
You
Top
Bottom
Idea
Like
Up
Act
Even
Grown
Grown-Up
Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet.
Kevin Macdonald
Looking
Cold
Someone
Horse
Put
Wet
Just
Act
When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
Kevin Mitnick
Key
Will
Hacker
Other
Find
Attack
Take
Fails
Along
Like
Know
Another
Go
Person
Report
Trying
Departments
Going
Often
Wants
Notes
Workers
Should
Act
Company
The thing is when I started doing standup, you had to have a clean act because that's how you got on television. There weren't all these cable shows. Also, I didn't want to have that kind of act in case my family came to see me or my kid one day.
Kevin Nealon
Day
Family
Me
You
Kid
One Day
Television
Kind
See
Case
Clean
Cable
Had
Also
Because
Got
How
Doing
Came
Were
Want
Act
Standup
Shows
Thing
Started
If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it's the same rules, but it's a different game every time you're out on that court. You're working on a different part of your game every time you're out on that court; your partner's working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it.
Kevin Spacey
Time
You
Game
Partner
Every
Changes
Every Time
Rules
Out
Week
Tennis
Part
Court
Yeah
Go
Times
Same
Being
Eight
Different
Working
Act
Your
Play
Watched
Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'
Kevin Systrom
You
Care
Before
Secret
Apps
Photo
Something
Instagram
Take
Take Care
Perform
Most
Said
Produce
Us
Asked
Act
Users
Let Us
Sauce
Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.
Kevin Young
Face
Pain
Pleasure
Revolutionary
Act
If I want to act, I'm gonna act. And if I consider myself an actor, that's all that matters to me.
Kian Lawley
Myself
Me
Matters
Consider
Want
Gonna
Act
Actor
It's hard to act in front of a lot of people.
Kian Lawley
People
Lot
Front
Act
Hard
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