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The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.
Stephen Moore
Care
Proportions
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Epic
Act
Flop
Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.
Stephen Moore
Sometimes
Care
Universe
President
President Obama
Out
Obama
Parallel
Plucked
Seems
More
Facts
Never
Animation
Around
Effects
Than
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Suspended
Where
Act
Floating
Lives
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
Stephen Rea
Time
Kids
Exactly
Exactly What
Act
Used
If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
Stephen Rodrick
Nature
Nothing
Else
Superstar
True
Reaching
True Nature
Reveal
Often
Act
Milestone
Serve
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
Stephen Root
Work
You
Memorizing
Dress
Dress-Up
Voiceover
Involve
Although
Still
Lines
Up
Act
Fun
Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Fool
Treat
Say
Folks
Some
He
Like
Boy
Convincing
Act
Need
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.
Steve Blake
Love
Family
Sports
Son
Have Fun
Wife
Own
Pretty
General
My Own
Like
Goofy
Around
Times
Quiet
Act
Fun
Play
Playing
In the past, when venture-funded startups told their investors they'd found a profitable business model, the first thing VCs would do is to start looking for an 'operating exec' - usually an MBA who would act as the designated 'adult' and take over the transition from Search to Build.
Steve Blank
Business
First
Looking
Build
Past
Startups
Would
Take
Adult
Investors
Over
Operating
First Thing
Model
The First Thing
In The Past
Transition
Act
Business Model
Who
Search
Found
Thing
Profitable
Start
It's not hard to have a second act. It's just that the second act's not going to be as exciting.
Steve Eisman
Exciting
Going
Just
Act
Hard
Second
I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
Steve Harvey
Life
First
Draw
Classes
Life Experiences
Classroom
Take
Comedian
Learned
How
Just
Experiences
Anything
Act
Need
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.
Steve Israel
Research
Increasing
Would
Would-Be
Embryonic
Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Stem Cells
Lines
Expand
Cell
Cell Research
Cells
Act
Enhancement
Eligible
Number
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'
Steve King
Benefits
Path
Military
Says
Out
Would
Citizenship
Badly
Put
Named
Come
Most
Advertisement
Sneak
America
American
Going
Bill
Act
Whole
Enlist
Trying to keep up is the ultimate act of uncoolness. And so I still retrieve not one but two daily newspapers from the driveway.
Steve Rushin
Daily
Driveway
Retrieve
Still
Ultimate
Up
Trying
Newspapers
Act
Keep
Two
There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.
Steve Scalise
You
Man
Woman
Marriage
Strong
Country
Congress
Defense
President
Ought
Stated
States
One-Man
Strongly
Remain
Had
Between
Majority
Passed
Clinton
Very
Bill
Act
Bill Clinton
Coalition
Union
Bipartisan
I would say if you're young, if you're a teenager, act in plays, as many plays as you can. It's an amazing way to build your craft and an amazing way to build your presence.
Steve Zissis
You
Amazing
Build
Young
Teenager
Way
Say
Would
Craft
Act
Your
Many
Presence
Plays
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
Steven Holl
Challenges
Architecture
Opportunities
Princeton
Environment
Campus
Social
Act
Unique
Presents
University
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
Steven Rattner
Will
Jobs
Lawyers
Clean
Clean Up
Likely
Mess
Up
Create
Created
Act
Largest
Number
Needed
Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.
Steven Rattner
Business
Oppose
Politicians
Difficult
Startups
Our
Indeed
Jobs
More
Catchy
Like
Piece
Makes
Legislation
Happened
Act
Slapping
The secret is not to act, but to be.
Steven Seagal
Secret
Act
Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.
Steven Van Zandt
World
Walk
Van
Scariest
Could
Know
Stevie
How
Act
Actor
Thing
Set
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
Steven Wright
Me
Exaggeration
Stage
More
Part
Off
Much
Act
Expressive
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel
You
Society
Someone
Could
Written
Participate
Supposed
Democratic
Democratic Society
Does
Editor
Act
Who
Activist
Letter
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
Sue Kelly
Daily
Freedom
Business
Law
Losing
Country
Our
Small
Potential
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Checking
Until
Becomes
Owners
Unfairly
Interest
Across
Act
Business Owners
Income
Daily Basis
Basis
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.
Sue Kelly
Education
Achieve
Will
Important
Possible
Federal
Allow
Students
Highest
Step
Taken
Toward
Policies
Learn
Enactment
Important Step
Left
Child
Behind
Achieving
Act
Level
Bipartisan
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
Sue Kelly
Year
Congress
Through
Passed
Effort
Bill
Act
Last
Bipartisan
Conservation
Last Year
If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.
Suge Knight
You
Somebody
Cross
Like
Wanna
Then
Act
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