Responsible Quotes - Page 18

• I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

  George Harrison

  Ideas, Ringo, Stirring

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• You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.

  Wally Amos

  Motivational, Getting Back Up, May

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• The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Over You, Feels, Success Or Failure

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.88, Basic Books

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• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  Barber Conable

  Father, Moving, Democracy

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• Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Choices, Adults

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

  Hazel Scott

  World, Gifted, Persons

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• Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Football, Country, Team

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• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Machines, Arms, Facts

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• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Sleep, Night

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• I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

  Dennis Weaver

  Kids, Creative, Healthy

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• Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Environmental, Doe, Done

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Healthy, Arguing

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.159, Penguin

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• The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

  H. R. Giger

  Father, Giving, Design

  Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.

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• I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

  James Van Allen

  Thinking, Political, Needs

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• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  Larry Elder

  Principles, Roles, Charity

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• When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.

  Zach Braff

  Play, People, Suffering

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• America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

  Pierre Salinger

  Names, America, People

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• Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

  Spider Robinson

  Two Sides, Rupture, Threatening

  Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson (2010). “Variable Star”, p.212, Macmillan

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• There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

  Akio Morita

  Secret, Ingredients, Formulas

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 130), 1986.

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• This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Land, Shelter

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

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• Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

  Deion Sanders

  Children, Athlete, Kids

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• The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

  Arthur Miller

  Christian, Home, Land

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year.

  Vernon Coleman

  Children, Animal, Men

  "Why Animal Experiments Must Stop". www.animalliberationfront.com. 1991.

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• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Responsibility, Guarantees That

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• There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

  Jack Canfield

  Art, Bodybuilding, Quality

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