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		As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sylvia Kristel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Brown Taylor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Argyris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evo Morales
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Barker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Susan Cain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Covey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michel Foucault
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Etgar Keret
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman goes dancing, she's finding a connection with her own erotic self. It might be about being on a dance floor, feeling free, not having to feel at all responsible for anybody else's well-being. For other people, it might be about going on a hike for four days by herself and reconnecting with nature and strength and endurance and beauty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Esther Perel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steve Buscemi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Mature' and 'responsible' are words I don't understand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Judy Carne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		In relationships with a directors I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harrison Ford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Sowell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Covey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Catherine Marshall