Obligation Quotes
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Amedeo Modigliani -
I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
Erik Weihenmayer
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I do think the chief justice has a particular obligation to try to achieve consensus consistent with everyone's individual oath to uphold the Constitution, and that would certainly be a priority for me if I were confirmed.
J. M. Roberts -
Fate is an obligation I don't understand - the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
Andrew X. Pham -
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
Bergen Evans -
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
Michael Eisner -
I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.
David Niu -
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
Efraim Zuroff
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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe -
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
Ricardo Lagos -
It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
Blaise Pascal -
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.
Ethan Zuckerman -
Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
Cesar Pelli -
I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.
Geoffrey Hill
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My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.
Andrew Niccol -
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav -
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Richard Shelby -
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
Richard Perle -
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
Norman Spinrad -
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses Mendelssohn
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
Terence McKenna -
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
Sean Penn -
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
Richard Lamm