Benvenuto Cellini Quotes

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

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• I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Black
  • Responsibility
  • Part

• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Free
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Power
  • Success
  • Eyes

• Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Death
  • Responsibility

• The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • May
  • Responsibility

• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Joy

• Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.

  

  John Anderson
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

  

  Diplo
  • Kids
  • Responsibility
  • Cool

• The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Believe
  • She
  • Responsibility

• In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • America
  • History
  • Responsibility

• Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Responsibility

• I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Best

• I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Believe
  • Money

• The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reflect
  • Hostility
  • Concerning

• One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Responsibility
  • Discretion