If You Care Quotes - Page 2

• It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

  Nicholas Boothman

  Heart, Important, Care

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• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  Campbell Scott

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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• If you care about shorebirds and the habitats they rely on, you can’t do better than supporting Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project. It connects, nurtures, prods, and fertilizes, at a global scale.

  Phillip Hoose

  Recovery, Habitat, Care

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• Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

  Willa Cather

  People, Feelings, Going Away

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1031, eBookIt.com

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Men, Growth

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• I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

  John Irving

  Teacher, Love You, Reading

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• If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.

  Ron Paul

  Free Education, Liberty, Immigration

  Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Care, Enough, Ifs

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• If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Wind, Care, Want

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• If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.

  Connie May Fowler

  Country, Smart, Book

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• If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

  Sherman Alexie

  Life, Pain, Mad

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.137, Random House

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• If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.

  Alfian Sa'at

  Heart, Care, Too Much

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• So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity!/ I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/ No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down!/

  Stephen Schwartz

  Flying High, Sky, Messages

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• If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  John Shelton Reed

  Race, Care, Poor

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• If you care enough, you make a difference.

  Loretta Swit

  Differences, Making A Difference, Care

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• Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Mean, People

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• If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

  Nick Hanauer

  Real, Care, Social

  Source: gawker.com

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• If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

  Irving Kristol

  Democracy, Quality, Care

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Walking Away, Care, Ranking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Best Love, Smart, Care

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Simple, Self

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• If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

  R. C. Sproul

  Care, Sake, Speak

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• You really can change the world if you care enough.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Change, Black History

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