Responsibility Quotes - Page 16

• I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Smoking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Years, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

  Suzanne Vega

  Children, Parent, Age

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• Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

  Dan Kimball

  Buddhist, Space, Design

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• It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.

  Lisa Maffia

  Children, Lying, Careers

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• The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of - if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn't she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That's the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man.

  Petey Pablo

  Mom, Struggle, Home

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• What is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton done to this country? That the most basic responsibility of an administration is to protect the safety and security of the American people.

  Chris Christie

  Country, People, Safety

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Care, Vulnerable

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.

  Len Elmore

  Heart, People, Giving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Korea, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  People, My Family, Feels

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.

  Echo Bodine

  Spiritual, People, Relationship With God

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music and sports, that I enjoyed. So, I'm trying to do my part, and I believe that all of us with a privileged background who are fortunate enough to have had that kind of access have a responsibility to try to pass it on.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Sports, Children, Educational

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I had a good understating about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films, that the press can be fun, that it's not about hyping yourself into stardom or trying to sell yourself as a hot ticket. I think a lot of young actors now are getting caught up in that.

  Laura Dern

  Fun, Thinking, Trying

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• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Differences, Safety, Soldier

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• There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

  Adyashanti

  Impact, Profound, Mind

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• If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

  Pat Summitt

  Successful, Want, Accepting

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.32, Crown Business

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• Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.

  Thomas Tull

  Important, Filmmaker, Fiscal Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

  Lake Bell

  Tired, Acting, Directors

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).

  Christopher Meledandri

  Thinking, Two, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

  Harrison Ford

  Running, Dog, Hero

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.

  Harrison Ford

  Exercise, Emotional, Creating

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Likes, Establishment

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

  Thomas Merton

  Decision, Faces, Neighbor

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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