Responsible Quotes - Page 34

• The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Likes, Process

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• Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

  Mike Easley

  Real, Choices, Vision

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• Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Suffering, Horizon

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Land, Nitrogen

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• He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Mother, Peace, Special

  Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Leviathan

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

  James Chanos

  Fiduciary, Doe, Selling

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

  Josh Gad

  Kids, Tiny, Changing Your Life

  "Gad & Rannells: A Blessed Union". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.playbill.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  Walter Gilbert

  Vigor, Variation, Genes

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• It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

  Dhani Harrison

  Relief, Band, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

  Tom Hardy

  Men, Elephants, Splits

  "Tom Hardy: the rake's progress". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Uranium Mining, Gold, World

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• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, People

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• It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

  Mike Jackson

  Philosophy, Army, Goes On

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• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Risk, Celebration, Kind

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• Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.

  Jennifer Young

  Pain, Moving, Recovery

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• It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

  Jesse Helms

  Disease, Disgusting, Deliberate

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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  Laura Lippman

  Kids, Different

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• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, People, House

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• I am responsible for no one but myself.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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