Involved Quotes
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Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.
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I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.
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I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.
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In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.
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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.
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Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.
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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
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When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.
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I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public, and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles.
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Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.
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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
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It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
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We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.
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I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.
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It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.
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If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.
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I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
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My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
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We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.
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If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
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As I get older and more tuned in to a community or an area, I see myself getting more involved. Not that I see myself running for office, but more involved in local issues.
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How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
