Involved Quotes - Page 16

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  Larry Flynt

  Trying, Scandal, Get Involved

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• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Trying, Lines

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• I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

  Michael J. Fox

  Boys, Want, Hearing

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Long, Catholic

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  Barney Frank

  Decision, Etc, Poor

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

  Brendan Fraser

  Desire, Groups, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

  Bill Gates

  Success, People, Empowering

  "Q&A: Gates talks about letting go, the future and the foundation". Interview with Todd Bishop and Tom Paulson, www.seattlepi.com. June 23, 2008.

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• You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Upset, Black

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Quests, Tiny

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

  Danny Glover

  Education, Children, Creativity

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

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• And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Goodbye, Done, Intense

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• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  T. D. Jakes

  Piano, Church, Ministry

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

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• If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

  LeBron James

  Movie, Stars, Opportunity

  Interview With Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2009.

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• If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

  Derek Jeter

  Names, Attention, Pay

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• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, Father, Space

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• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Medicine, Profound, Today

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• To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Crazy, Kids

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• I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

  Heidi Klum

  Husband, Best Husband, World

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• As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this day and age with social media and Facebook, Twitter, it's really impossible to escape people that you've been involved with. In a weird way, it makes it easier for everyone to stay friends because you're just sort of stuck there.

  Zachary Knighton

  Media, People, Age

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• In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Jobs, People, Cleveland

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Drama, Integrity, Creative

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. January 20, 2004.

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• A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Sports, Golf, Men

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