Being Responsible Quotes - Page 8

• The number one lesson I received from my father is to be responsible for yourself and your family. The responsibility you embrace is working, paying the bills, and coming home EACH night, just as a start.

  Tony Gaskins

  Father, Responsibility, Home

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

  Michael Cera

  People, Support, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Matter, Responsible

  "This Is What 80 Looks Like". Interview with Gail Collins, www.nytimes.com. March 22, 2014.

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• The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

  Lance Armstrong

  Mistake, Decision, Reason

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Events, Responsible

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• I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Russia, Want

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.

  Hillary Clinton

  Summer, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

  Ariel Pink

  Artist, Path, Helping

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.

  Murray Rothbard

  Running, Fire, Games

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• Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

  Tim Huelskamp

  Husband, Father, Kids

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• Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Responsible, Made

  "Ho Ho Hill" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. January 2, 2008.

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• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Family, Mother, Children

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• You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Energy, World, Responsible

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• Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.

  K. D. Lang

  Country, Art, Nashville

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• Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible.

  Mathieu Demy

  Directors, Cinema, World

  Source: collider.com

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• As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Responsible, Notion, Psychiatrist

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• Sometimes, in order to follow one's heart, one must do the wrong thing. Now, I'm not absolving anyone of their actions; you have to be responsible for your actions, sick or well, you have to be, you just have to be. All of us are accountable.

  Craig Ferguson

  Heart, Order, Sick

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• If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Decision, Use

  Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (1999). “The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results”, p.47, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Community, Doe

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

  Chris Christie

  Differences, Looks, Done

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Years, Usa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Healing, Thinking, Body

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.

  Aaron Tippin

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

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