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I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'
Ving Rhames
Life
God
Me
Man
People
My Life
Poverty
Tell
Only
Know
Am
His
Hand
Going
Where
Act
Acting
Choose
Reason
Chose
Now
Why
Here
Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.
Vinny Guadagnino
Me
Book
Writing
Try
Mind
Doors
Side
Draw
Definitely
Drawing
Some
Something
Pursue
Write
Opened
Like
Well
Lot
Artistic
Maybe
Clothing
Act
Skills
Using
Designs
I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.
Vinny Guadagnino
Love
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Pay
Every
Kid
Drawing
One Thing
Something
Since
Been
Get
Happily
Little
Little Kid
Act
Acting
Paid
Thing
I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone!
Vinoba Bhave
Will
Just Be
Worship
Worthless
Only
Absence
Shall
Facing
Piece
Devotion
Lord
Idol
Accompanied
Stone
May
Just
Mean
Act
Image
I've been lucky - all the ads I've got, I've got to be myself. I haven't had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I'm not. I think that's why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.
Virat Kohli
Myself
People
Too Much
Think
Too
Tried
Someone
Ads
Had
Like
Sort
Got
Been
Did
Them
Much
Act
Hard
Lucky
Even
Why
It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.
Virginia Hey
Great
Me
Fear
Feeling
Overwhelming
Sense
Addicted
Must
Rush
Scary
Adrenaline
Great Sense
Suppose
Like
Well
Well-Being
Terrifying
Accomplish
Jumping
Get
Being
After
Act
Satisfaction
Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.
Virginia Postrel
Food
Law
Safety
Internet
Labeling
Rules
Promised
Cosmetic
Federal
Consumers
Supporters
Return
Established
Choice
Act
Requirements
Prescription
Medicines
It's very important to understand how to act in any situation.
Vittoria Ceretti
Important
Situation
Understand
How
Very
Any
Act
Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
Vivian Campbell
Music
Good
Great
Technology
Made
Organic
Live
Easier
Make
Does
Always
Current
Transcend
Being
Cannot
Manipulate
Cut
Much
Act
Many
Acts
I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So, people come see you to basically act.
Wade Boggs
You
People
Big
Pay
Think
Athletes
See
General
Crowds
Perform
Come
Front
Act
Actor
Play
Basically
As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
Walter Gropius
Art
Government
Me
Made
Consequences
Approved
Easily
Would
Unpleasant
Criticizing
About
Russia
Risking
Remark
Hostile
Taken
Put
Name
Well
Policy
Without
Italy
Up
Very
Germany
Report
Official
Any
Cannot
Which
Against
Act
Present
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Walter Lang
Creation
Progressive
Distinction
We Cannot
Clear
Idea
Between
Accept
Makes
Cannot
Process
Scripture
Act
Preservation
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
Walter Murch
People
World
Listening
Perspective
Looking
Think
About
General
Construct
Glance
Primarily
Glimpse
Know
Sort
Sound
Effect
Different
Act
Different Perspective
Noun
Many
Why
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
Talk
Principal
Motivation
Act
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
Warren Beatty
Me
Case
Could
Make
Mistaken
Narcissistic
Motivation
Same
Being
Children
Movie
Movie Actors
Grandchildren
Act
Aging
Whose
Actor
Necessarily
Here
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger
People
Licensing
About
More
Casual
Allow
Qualifying
Advocate
Courtroom
Than
Act
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
Warren Rudman
Terrorism
You
Natural
People
Matter
First
Chaotic
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Totally
Case
Major
Disaster
Hours
Involving
Going
Whether
Natural Disaster
Plan
Act
Millions
Millions Of People
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver
Good
Religion
Science
People
Behavior
Animals
Analyze
Bad
Purposeful
Attempts
Wrong
Concern
How
Answers
Quest
Behave
Precisely
Whether
Act
Why
Right
Things
I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
Warwick Davis
Hope
Will
Somebody
Davis
Legacy
Short
Just
Want
Happens
Act
Who
Actor
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones
You
Rapper
Films
Saw
Those
Rappers
Seemed
Could
Like
Cameo
Just
Whenever
Act
Film
New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.
Wendy Long
Change
World
Financial
Think
Hong Kong
Jobs
City
London
Instead
New
Geneva
Dodd-Frank
Kong
York
Send
Going
New York
New York City
Center
Capital
Act
Keeping
Sydney
I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act.
Wendy Long
Finance
Good
Great
You
Fight
Money
Protection
Thought
Big
Guess
Incumbent
Our
Laws
Idealistic
Learned
Waging
Campaign
Campaign Finance
Little
Capable
Really
Act
Raise
Honest
Seven Words' is a wanderer's tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.
Weyes Blood
Words
Somebody
Seven
Evoke
Seeking
Songs
Tale
Leaving
Tradition
Continue
Itself
Familiar
Trying
Wanderer
Order
Tune
Them
Act
Farewell
Save
No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.
Whitney Tilson
News
Key
Reflection
Example
Changed
Once
Enron
Further
Would
About
Only
No-One
Investment
Investments
Investors
Study
For Example
Well
Context
Been
Sell
Accounting
Reports
Act
Your
Ignoring
Keep
Thesis
Served
Early
Suggest
Core
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.
Wil S. Hylton
Impeachment
Losing
Power
Lost
Every
Spent
Administration
Invasion
General
Only
He
Since
Democrat
Also
Fellow
His
Years
Iraq
Friends
Five
Patriot
Patriot Act
After
Against
Republicans
Bush
Bush Administration
Next
Act
Help
Many
Nearly
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.
Wilbur Ross
Community
Congress
Market
Mac
Weak
Would
Between
Demand
Make
Call
Imposed
Led
Very
Banks
Created
Really
Act
Requiring
Specific
Phenomenon
Loans
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