Responsibility Quotes
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
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Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.
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The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
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The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
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It is the responsibility, I think, of anybody in elected office to look for opportunities to help serve their people.
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I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
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You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
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I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
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I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.
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When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.
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I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
