Commit Quotes - Page 19

• From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Age

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.

  Bernie Siegel

  Suicide, Children, Growing Up

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's confusional arousals, there are states in deeper sleep that can happen where people will go and they'll disappear and they'll take on some other persona. They'll commit some crime, but it's all when they are in a very deep stage of sleep. So you really need to have a very thorough evaluation.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, People, Arousal

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.

  Debra Messing

  Children, Self Esteem, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• This choice is yours, and will only be yours, it's up to you to commit.

  Julie Hebert

  Choices, Up To You

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• Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Taken, Hard Work

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• The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Laughter, Laughing, Lessons

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• Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.

  Arianna Huffington

  Phones, Cameras, Expansion

  "Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2009.

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• There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kids, Punishment, Misunderstood

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• I would absolutely commit to holding a vote on the hunting ban - I think it is not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Animal, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

  Chuck Grassley

  Issues, Way, Ruling

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Republican voters believe we should have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest. They don't believe we should enter into - commit the United States to further globalist policies that diminish the sovereignty and freedom of American to act in its own interest.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Should Have, Immigration

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

  Jeff Sessions

  People, Borders, Argument

  Source: www.politico.com

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• You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a country, OK? ... We're not gonna allow the people to come into our country. ... And if people want to come in, there's gonna be "Extreme vetting."

  Donald Trump

  Country, Suicide, People

  "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". "60 MInutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Police, Crime

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing that exists, that is not existing perfectly, which includes every thought we have, every word we speak, and every action we commit. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with me, with you, with them.

  Bryan Kest

  Words We Speak, Action, Speak

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• You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

  Paul Watson

  Violence, Living Things, Objects

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• Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

  Dalai Lama

  Violence, Justified, Method

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't know if you'll be able to sell the quantities they're asking you to fill.

  Fred Foster

  Asking, Textiles, Able

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Hard Times, People, Legacy

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Dutch, Citizenship

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

  John Dewey

  Men, House, May

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.23, 谷月社

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• If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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• If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?

  Jesse Ventura

  Beer, People, Drug

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Helping, Get Money

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