Obligation Quotes - Page 35

• As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

  Jason Bateman

  Choices, Different, Actors

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• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Responsibility, Race

  "Huckabee: Muslim Can Be President; Obama 'Pretends to Be' Christian, Makes Living Out Faith Difficult" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.

  Bill Murray

  Mean, Light, Trying

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• Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, Peaceful

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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

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• My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

  Andrew Niccol

  Horse, Ideas, People

  "Director Andrew Niccol IN TIME Interview; Talks About Adapting Stephenie Myer’s THE HOST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. October 25, 2011.

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• If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.

  David Cross

  People, Want, Ifs

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. May, 2008.

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• The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Commitment, Humanity, Desire

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• I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Thinking, Mountain, Way

  Source: www.afb.org

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• True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Religion, Welfare

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• Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weakness, Violence, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

  George Lucas

  Country, Growing Up, Helping Others

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.

  George Lucas

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.

  Zachary Taylor

  Integrity, History, Half

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• I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.

  Leslie Parrish

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Appreciate, Dumb

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

  Charles M. Blow

  Love You, Different, World

  "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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• We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Firsts, Bans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.

  Charlyne Yi

  Thinking, People, Be Kind

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

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• A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  Judith Butler

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Trying, Weight, Body

  "Scarlett Johansson's in Love! (but not with this guy)". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.glamour.com. September 28, 2009.

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• What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending the country. That's important and it needs to be corrected. Part of the integration is also taking it on themselves the burden, if you will, or the obligation to defend their country.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Rights, Important

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Voice, Poet, Should

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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