Responsibility Quotes - Page 22

• A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas. And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they're coming to visit or stay with.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, Numbers, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes writing more difficult. That may not be the case for everyone - I know plenty of writers and artists who seem to have energy in abundance for all the facets of life; but are they producing anything worthwhile?

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Artist, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

  Kevin Keck

  Book, Thinking, Lazy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Thinking, Calling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  Chris Matthews

  Character, Men, Mad

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, That One Person, Too Much

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We do have responsibilities, as we live on this planet. It is our one and only home, which we are obligated to protect, to keep as beautiful and harmonious as it is. It is really for everyone to do so, including you and me.

  Li Bingbing

  Beautiful, Home, Planets

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Father, Ethos

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• Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility.

  Douglas Booth

  Children, Land, Long

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

  Douglas Booth

  Thinking, Phoenix, Balance

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.

  William Monahan

  Running, Moving, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• You have such a big responsibility. This person is still alive. You would think that they think highly of themselves and their accomplishments and what they've done. You can only hope to bring justice to that.

  Stephan James

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Justice

  "Stephan James on His Breakout Role as Jesse Owens in Race". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. February 16, 2016.

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• I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Thinking, Saving

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• Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

  Thomas Keating

  Intelligent, People, Support

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.

  Benjamin Carson

  Jobs, Confused, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I believe that that responsibility that reporters have is worthy of me showing them respect, and that's what I try to do on a regular basis, and I have been pleased that most reporters have reciprocated and shown me respect as well.

  Josh Earnest

  Believe, Trying, Worthy

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• here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Reason, Behavior

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Challenges, Levels, Want

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

  Tom Ridge

  Thinking, Accountability, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Important, Way, Moments

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Life Is, Moments

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

  Carice van Houten

  Two, Half, Film

  "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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• Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Rights, Ideas

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.

  N. T. Wright

  Government, Church, One Day

  Source: sojo.net

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• Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.

  Alison Assiter

  Mean, Exercise, Reflection

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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