Contributing Quotes - Page 6

• I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Nfl, Enjoy

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• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ignorance, Issues

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

  Christopher Cross

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, Humble, Science

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• But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiring, Fun, Offering

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Play, People

  "Calling on the Private Sector: It’s Time to Play a Role" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

  Logan Lerman

  Want, Film, Being Famous

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• If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change. Retirement becomes less about how much money you can squirrel away now and much more a matter of participating and contributing to your own community now so that they want to take care of you. … We’re going to move into a world where your retirement will be more secure if you’ve made lots of friends with young people rather than collected lots of dollars.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Retirement, Believe, Moving

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• If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Falling In Love, Hunting, Hands

  "How Trump's son's passion for hunting is shaping search for Interior secretary" By Tal Kopan, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2016.

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• Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Gifted Writers

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• The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.

  Jessica Chastain

  Real, Grateful, Mean

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

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• Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Morning, White, House

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• I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food.

  Kelly Preston

  Mother, Husband, Believe

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• I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Jesus, Stars, Believe

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

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• Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.

  Greg Meyer

  Mistake, Bigs, Retiring

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• But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Blessed, World, Feels

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Stupidity, Style, Needs

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962), 1960.

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• I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Guilt, Blame

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• I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

  Jude Law

  Thinking, Feelings, Film

  "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Real, Knowledge, Science

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• In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

  William C. Menninger

  Loyalty, Fear, Reality

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• The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Depressed Person, Essentials

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• My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Spiritual, Love Yourself, Healing

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, People, Entrepreneur

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