acted

[acted]

When you do something, you act. A commercial that says "Act now!" means "Get up from the couch and order me! This minute!"

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imp. & p. p.
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Usage Examples

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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