Responsibility Quotes - Page 15

• I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

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• And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Thinking, People

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Secret, Society

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Evil, Age, Finals

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• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  Cathy Freeman

  Athletic, Association, Busy

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• Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Choices

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• Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Lonely, Spirit, Photograph

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• The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

  Colin Ward

  Cities, Police, Surveillance

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• I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

  George W. Bush

  Personal Responsibility

  "Bush defends record on Iraq, intelligence, economy" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. July 30, 2003.

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• Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Hussein, Weapons

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• Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Agency, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

  Dane Cook

  Acceptance, Action, Accepting

  Twitter post from May 30, 2012

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• The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands. Such food may not be tasty, but it will be nourishing if it has to be used.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Taken, Home, Hands

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• I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Eye, People, Trying

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• [The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

  Janet Malcolm

  Photography, Unique, Decision

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  Liam Fox

  Loyalty, Sorry, Mistake

  Liam Fox during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 10, 2011.

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• I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.

  Mark Mason

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

  Mark Mason

  Land, Should, Surveyors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't think that I would be very happy, getting inundated by financial issues. I would love to co-direct with somebody because that would be a real freedom and an adventure, and then I could leave all the pain and misery to them. I'm not glib about it. I would take the responsibility to make a really good movie.

  Lance Henriksen

  Pain, Real, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. It's all about putting my time in and showing people that I'm good and responsible and, hopefully, kicking ass in every frame.

  Kevin Durand

  People, Kicking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  People, Smoking, Creative

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Jobs, Character, Hands

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Smoking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

  Colin Powell

  Strong, Government, Citizens

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Years, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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