Responsibility Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

  Angus King

  Government, Defense, Fundamentals

  "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

  Josh Earnest

  Tough Questions, Citizens, Administration

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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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• While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator [Ted] Cruz have contributed as senators... there's no doubt in my mind that being a governor is far, far better preparation for the ultimate responsibility as president of the United States.

  Tom Ridge

  Thinking, Doubt, Preparation

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Needs, Helpful, Life Is

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Kindness, Positivity, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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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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• I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

  Richard Marshall

  Mean, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's a responsibility to the story, but there's also the sense of fun you have. When everybody else leaves, you get to continue to create. For me, there's no other way! I really like creating from the ground up.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Fun, Creating, Stories

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, Years, Levels

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Practice, Get Better, Musician

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Found, Know How, My Own

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Rights, Democracy, Degrees

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Insulting, Black

  Source: screenrant.com

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• On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family.

  Harry West

  Sibling, People, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.

  Harry West

  People, Areas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

  Ellen Page

  Educate

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

  Mark Millar

  Girl, Daughter, Book

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Stories, Directors, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

  A-Trak

  Couple, Culture, Roles

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children's show? See, I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

  Paul Reubens

  Children, Real, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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