Responsibility Quotes - Page 40

• I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.

  Ice T

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Interview Ice-T and Chuck D. by Jorge Hinojosa". Interview With Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

  Erin Siegal McIntyre

  Photographer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No president ever puts American lives at risk without a terrible sense of responsibility. And no American ever hears or reads of a soldier’s death without saying a silent prayer for the dead hero or thinking of the grief of the family and friends. Every young man or woman who dies represents a life with its own dreams and plans, extinguished so suddenly. But all said and done, it is our responsibility to see that (1) we never put our troops in situations where they are subject to unnecessary risk, and (2) we give them all our support at all times.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Prayer, Grief

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.

  John F. Kerry

  Suicide, Islamic, Eye

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One of the prime backers of land bill was a Republican Congressman, a Paul Gosar. And when he was challenged by an Apache on this bill, he said, well, you know, Indians are wards of the federal government. This happened recently.That congressperson is obviously stuck in the 19th century when he thinks about Indians. How is that person going to legislate and treat Indians fairly and respect their rights when he has this sort of infantilized image of Indians as not being, you know, up to the same level of responsibility as everybody else?

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Thinking, Republican, Stuck

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.

  Sylvia Earle

  Girl, Children, Caring

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

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• If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

  Frank Gehry

  Together, Serious, Building

  Source: amandajbailey.wordpress.com

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• Baseball is actually interesting, I don't find me to be that interesting. But I am realistic enough to understand it's not about me, it's about the fact that I'm speaking for the game and people care so deeply about the game that they're watching to make sure that you do the right thing. And I feel a real responsibility to try to do the right thing as a result.

  Rob Manfred

  Baseball, Real, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures. We have a responsibility to be aware of others and I believe this will inspire the individual way each person can make their difference.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Children, Believe

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.

  Dan Coats

  Past, Guy, Blame

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

  Chip Pitts

  Past, October, Intense

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Thinking, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The managers of the big brands have a very clear responsibility. It's attracting and keeping talented people in order to sustain and build the trustworthiness of that brand. There is no clearer objective in the economy. Your economic success depends on expanding and building your economies of trustworthiness.

  Robert Reich

  People, Building, Trustworthiness

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change.

  Nate Parker

  Educational, People, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Believe, Role Models

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• I completely respect the ways people are bound in the lives that they have, whether it's because of forces outside of their control or choices that they've made that they want to honor with their own responsibilities and obligations - taking care of people around them or being a part of a community, or their work.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Choices, Community

  "Finding Cosmos in a Bed of Moss: Our Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert". Interview With Mari Malcolm, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, Individualism, Know Yourself

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Playing Sally McKenna was a wonderful, freeing thing because we all in life have so many responsibilities to ourselves, to other people, that we rarely get to explore a very selfish side of ourselves in doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without answering to or being responsible for anyone else.

  Sarah Paulson

  Selfish, People, Wonderful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.

  Sarah Paulson

  Giving Up, Party, Creativity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

  Martha McSally

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.

  Harriet Lerner

  Integrity, Heart, Apology

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's time to hand back responsibility for being an adult to everyone in the situation. You're not helping anybody by staying in a romantic relationship that isn't good for you or staying in a work relationship that sucks or staying in a friendship where you hate the other person. That's not helping anyone.

  Sara Benincasa

  Hate, Helping, Situation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to claim it's some kind of democratizing force that is not responsible for what it does. The notion that the media simply reflects reality is an argument that justifies its flight from responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Reality, Abuse, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to larger systemic forces. Even though such problems are not of their own making, neoliberalism's discourse insists that the fate of the vulnerable is a product of personal issues ranging from weak character to bad choices or simply moral deficiencies. This makes it easier for its advocates to argue that poverty is a deserved condition.

  Henry Giroux

  Character, Fate, Choices

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you find compelling evidence that departs from the accepted wisdom. A biography for young people calls for the demanding art of distillation, the art of storytelling, and your responsibility is to stick as closely as possible to the documented record.

  Russell Freedman

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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