Responsibility Quotes - Page 29

• What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years and phenotypes cheering us on with recycles of energy.

  Marina Keegan

  Cheer, Oxygen, Years

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

  Eavan Boland

  Thinking, Long, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

  Frank Gehry

  Serious, Architect, Ifs

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• There's so many moving pieces, but to be as public as I've become and to be at the front and take the brunt of anything that happens is a huge responsibility, but also something that takes some time to step into and that has been really challenging.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Moving, Challenges, Pieces

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Well advice people have told me that is that, "If people aren't suing you, you haven't made it," which I don't necessarily believe but with greater success comes greater responsibility and being one of the few female entrepreneurs who I think has been as public as I have been, you're definitely under a spotlight. It's difficult to manage.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.

  Melissa Leo

  Real, Character, Play

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Kids, Parent, Television

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

  Flying Lotus

  Light, Shining, Feels

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, White, House

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

  Jill Stein

  Medicine, Leader, Physicians

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers, although that was Jack Geiger's thing.

  Jill Stein

  Community, Physicians, Social

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

  Jill Stein

  War, School, Government

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Past

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Political, Structure

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Indians, we would like to be a part of the nuclear world order, accepting all the responsibilities that go with being a responsible nuclear power, and at the same time enlarging our options with regard to energy security of our country.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Order, Energy

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• I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Daughter, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Balance, Looks

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I made a mistake using a private e- mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Mail, Excuse

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things that I loved about when I met my husband was that he picked me up and he paid - I know that sounds old-fashioned but for me, most of my life, I always would split the bill or would always pay, or I would be very assertive about my independence and my financial responsibility. And I am a very strong woman and very strong-willed - but there was something really great about him taking care of me and treating me and opening the door and driving, and I am perfectly OK with that. And he still does it to this day.

  Sutton Foster

  Strong Women, Husband, Doors

  "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I believe corporations that benefit from everything America has to offer should feel (ph) some sense of responsibility, not just to their biggest shareholders, but to their workers, to their customers, to their communities and, yes, to our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, America

  Source: time.com

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• You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

  Tim Kaine

  Looks, Apologizing, Vain

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Struggle, Player, Night

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

  John Kao

  Creating, Accountability, Mind

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Mean, Careers, People

  Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?

  Michal Rovner

  School, Progress, Language

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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