Get Involved Quotes - Page 15

• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Learning, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

  Bob Woodward

  Stories, Literature, Lawyer

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nice, Luxury, People

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• You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason.

  Julian Gough

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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• I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

  Josh Lanyon

  Easy, Rest Easy, Involved

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

  Jon Landau

  Beach, Artist, Boys

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• I'll get involved in philanthropy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Philanthropy, Involved

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• If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Mind, Expecting, Things To Do

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Government, People

  "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 22, 2012.

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• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Might, Way

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, People, Involved

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• I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

  Damian Lewis

  Attitude, Hard Work, Play

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• I don't get involved in record label politics.

  Leona Lewis

  Labels, Records, Record Labels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Directors, Three, Actors

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• When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Military, Responsibility

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

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• I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Knowing, Space

  "Buzz Aldrin Reflects on Moon Landing". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2009.

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• When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Time

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• Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event.

  Chelsea Handler

  Tv Shows, People, Comedian

  "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

  Eartha Kitt

  Running, War, Boys

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• I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

  Dolly Parton

  Hands, Kind, Type

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• ... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

  Jay Maisel

  Lying, Trying, Computer

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• There's tons of information on the Internet, so if you type in cancer, they'll give you 15, 000 different options to get involved with cancer. It's very easy to get involved if you want to get involved, especially to volunteer your time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Cancer, Volunteer, Giving

  "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

  James Patterson

  Nice, Book, Character

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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