John Ashcroft Quotes
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
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Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
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I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
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My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
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I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.
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A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.
