Responsibility Quotes
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
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We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
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Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.
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It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.
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It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
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When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.
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I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.
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In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.
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We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.
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Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.
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I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Yoga teaches the immutable law of Karma. Karma says we are the architects of our happiness and our misery. We can hope for new outcomes from old behaviors, or realize that only new behaviors will change our circumstances. It’s our choice. We can continue to suffer, or we can take responsibility for our lives. We can live in our illusions, feeling frustrated and victimized, or we can surrender our egos and see the bigger picture. This means we learn to listen to our hearts, reclaim our power, step up, and take skillful action.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.
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The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
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The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
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Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.
