Get Involved Quotes - Page 16

• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Way, Hips

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

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• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Community, Political, Paper

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

  James Patterson

  Nice, Book, Character

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• I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

  Serj Tankian

  Hate, Want, Helping

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

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes. He’s not the kind of man you take home to meet your stepmom.” I rethought that. “Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?

  Darynda Jones

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.262, St. Martin's Press

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• Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Men, Abby

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• You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’t ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blow, Looks, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.54, Penguin

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• You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

  David Levithan

  People, Trying, Different

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.131, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Years, Two

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• Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Believe, People

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• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

  Sam Walton

  Ideas, Effective Listening, Keys

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• Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

  Lindsey Shaw

  School, Soup Kitchens, California

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• I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Running, Player, Tennis

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• I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

  Jeremy Northam

  Thinking, Ideas, Energy

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• Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Country, Responsibility

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.44, Gospel For Asia Books

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• There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

  Trent Reznor

  Friday, Artist, Night

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with sport at whatever level. What I would say is, if you can, go and work with your local radio station covering local sporting events.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

  Bobby Flay

  Want, Grilling, Entertaining

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• Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Secret, Trying, Said

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• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Ideas, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

  Jane Green

  Girl, Independent, Insecure

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• Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Business Success, Self Improvement

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• One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mistake, Men

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• Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Examination, World

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