Involved Quotes - Page 13

• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

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

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• My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.

  Travis Barker

  Grateful, Alive, Crash

  "Former Blink-182 Drummer Travis Barker Says He's 'Thankful to Be Alive' After Plane Crash". www.foxnews.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Finding Yourself, Nineteen

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les belles images”

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• A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Spirit, Chance

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• The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Sex, Simple, Psychology

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

  Jeff Bezos

  Discovery, Serendipity

  "dot.conqueror" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.

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• I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

  Jello Biafra

  People, Inspire, Helping

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• I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

  Juliette Binoche

  Believe, Acting, Way

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  Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Anger, People, Actresses

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• I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

  Lewis Black

  Real, People, Theater

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

  Cate Blanchett

  Layers, Process

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• I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Men, Play, Giving

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• There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

  Jo Bonner

  Offering, Hands, Storm

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• Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

  Bono

  Emergencies, Done, Development

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• Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

  Bono

  Christian, Emergencies, Conservative

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• U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

  Bono

  Wife, Aids, Ethiopia

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• I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

  Bono

  Debt, World, Concerts

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Mind, Attention

  Edward de Bono (2016). “The Happiness Purpose”, p.70, Random House

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• I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Self, People

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• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Personality, Fascination, States

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• I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

  Jeff Bridges

  Knowing, Political Will, Creating

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• I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

  Sarah Brightman

  Careers, Cameras, Natural

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2014

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• Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

  Barbara Bush

  Time, Believe, Ideas

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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