Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

Nicole Kidman

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• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Stop

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Choices

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Done
  • Choices

• The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • World
  • Women
  • Attention

• One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• I don't know what draws me to my films. In hindsight, my choices turn out OK.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Choices

• My first responsibility is to keep America safe.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • People
  • Black
  • Choices

• If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Bad
  • Choices
  • Regret

• Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Why
  • Future
  • Past

• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

  

  David Talbot
  • Service
  • Sunday
  • Weekend

• You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Responsibility
  • Choices
  • Actresses