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Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.

Thomas Piketty

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Tony Snow

Don’t be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.

John Wooden

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Karen Armstrong

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Kirstie Alley

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

Kevin Brady

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Kevin Brownlow

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Kathleen Hanna

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Keith Hernandez

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Kathy Ireland

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Kim Stanley Robinson

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

Ken Stott

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Kiefer Sutherland

'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

Leslie Easterbrook

In my mother's house there is still God." Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Liya Kebede

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

Linda McMahon

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

Liev Schreiber

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Lionel Trilling

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Mathieu Amalric