Responsibility Quotes - Page 25

• If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Leader, Looks

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Nice, Thinking

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• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

  Paul Haggis

  Country, War, Men

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• In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

  Andrew Solomon

  Luxury, Anxiety, World

  "Foreign correspondent Andrew Solomon on 'Far and Away,' Gadhafi's Libya". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 2016.

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• I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Daughter, Opportunity, World

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Kindness, Integrity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.

  Theresa May

  Car, Political, Police

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Government, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.

  Leonard Peltier

  Land, Essence, Rights

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Mistake, Everyday, Important

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• The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.

  Paul Kagame

  Issues, Leader, President

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". Interview with Jeune Afrique, umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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• I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

  Colin Powell

  War, Government, Decision

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

  Joni Ernst

  Believe, Fighting, Men

  Source: hotair.com

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• The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Sleep, Different, Festivals

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Men, Anxiety, Feelings

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they chose that it's 90 minutes, not less and not more. But the choices are the responsibility of the filmmaker. You have to choose to join the story at an arbitrary point, and you leave it at an arbitrary point.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Soccer, Games, Two

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Long, Choices

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Sports, Eye, Opportunity

  "Saving The Planet With Ed Begley, Jr". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Accountability, Want

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• Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.

  James Franco

  Art, Book, Trying

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

  Shane Claiborne

  Party, Compassion, Limits

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

  Shane Claiborne

  Government, Church, Personal Responsibility

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

  Martin Schulz

  Lying, British, Hostage

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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