Eve Ensler Quotes
We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
Laura Lippman
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. Hunt
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
Val Kilmer
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
Samantha Power
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
Victor Papanek
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Oprah Winfrey
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You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.
Louis Sachar
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Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.
Ann Druyan
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You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.
Oprah Winfrey
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You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
Barack Obama
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It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
Ariel Pink
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
Edward T. Hall
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The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.
Jason Mraz
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
Beverly Sills
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Kristen Stewart
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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its the earth's flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
Aristotle
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There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.
Gaetano Salvemini
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Excellent creature! How my soul pants for thee!
Edward Joseph Young
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But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.
Eve Ensler