Commit Quotes - Page 37

• Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

  Mario Draghi

  Government, Euro Crisis, Independence

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Reading, Phones, Data

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  Karin Fossum

  Children, Believe, Despair

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• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Will Ferrell

  Drama, Thinking, Play

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• In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

  Chuck Grassley

  Suicide, Apology, Cases

  "Row over AIG bonuses threatens Obama's economic plans" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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• In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

  Johnny Galecki

  Character, Play, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dating, Littles, Sin

  Song: Grapefruit Juicyfruit

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• Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

  Waylon Jennings

  Men, Order, Years

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• We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Order, Law

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.704, Gyldendal A/S

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• The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Punishment, Messages, Crime

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• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  People, Citizens, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

  Joanna Kerns

  Here And There, Six Months, Kind

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• One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.

  Josh Mandel

  Ohio, Issues, People

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• Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Trying, Way, Make The Best Of It

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

  Carre Otis

  Believe, Progress, Made

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Suicide, Intellectual, Want

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• I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Suffering, Percent, Ifs

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• That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

  Matt Stone

  Decision, Principles, Paper

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Office

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• Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

  Don Tapscott

  Needs, Lifelong Learning, Plans

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

  William Landay

  Simple, Important, Our Actions

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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Thinking

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.

  Anthony Zinni

  Thinking, Mogadishu, Needs

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• You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind

  Kid Cudi

  Suicide, Mind, Trying

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• God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Evil, Miracle

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 4, 1951.

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