Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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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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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
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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.
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There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.
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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.
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If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
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Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
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I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
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I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
