Involved Quotes - Page 15

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14

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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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• I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Thinking, Numbers

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

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• You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, Baby, Dad

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Institutions

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

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• Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

  Mike Ditka

  Stay Strong, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

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• It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, Kids, Drug

  "Welcome to Britain, Mr Dogg: rapper is less gangsta, more pussycat, judge rules" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

  William O. Douglas

  Loyalty, Decision, Political

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

  Lena Dunham

  Parent, Wanted, Felt

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• All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Years, Play, Otters

  "Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 23, 2010.

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• It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  School, Class, Crafts

  "Phillyist Interviews TV Food Network’s Giada de Laurentiis". Interview with Joanne Jordan, phillyist.com. October 19, 2005.

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• I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

  Steve Earle

  New York, Cities, People

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

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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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• There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Successful, Rights, Order

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.397, Best Books on

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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Careers, Two

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• But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Parent, Causes

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• I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Michigan, Clubs

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• Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

  Tom Felton

  Writing, Acting, Want

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

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• I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Adoption, Investing

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• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  Nathan Fillion

  Writing, Past, Talking

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• I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Teaching, Names

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• I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

  Carrie Fisher

  Difficult Situations, Survivor, Want

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• Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

  Bobby Flay

  Want, Grilling, Get Involved

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