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• I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

  Lorrie Moore

  Breathing, Play, People

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• I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

  Michael Moore

  War, Guy, Idiot

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• I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Suffering, United States

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• The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

  Michael Moore

  Mass Destruction, Melting, Weapons

  "Goodbye, GM" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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• I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Powerful, Scary, Lows

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• I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Rights, Blood, Law

  Hosni Mubarak's speech to his nation, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Years, People, Bankers

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• I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

  "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

  Richard J. Needham

  Love, Strong, Fall

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• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

  Liam Neeson

  Mind, Pace, Exorcism

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• The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

  Howard Nemerov

  Facts, Cases, Historian

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Anais Nin

  Teamwork, War, Fate

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• The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Party, Government, Leader

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• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Adventure, Government, Goal

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• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Promise, Steps

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

  Responsible Business, Class, Environmental

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• You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, President, Knows

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• I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Borders, Feels

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

  Suze Orman

  Children, Growing Up, Chance

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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Desire, Our Actions, Causes

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• If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Spokes, Publicists

  "Robert Pattinson Interviews on 'GMA,' Jodie Foster Defends Kristen Stewart" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

  Henry Paulson

  Running, Impact, Agency

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• As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Loving Life, Government, Class

  Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”

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• This is bizarre," I say. "I think it's beautiful," he says. I give him a look. "What?" He laughs a little. "They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Thinking, Government

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Darkness, Sake

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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