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Responsibility Quotes
"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
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"Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy."
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"And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all."
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"Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain."
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"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
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"Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you."
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"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
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"If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country."
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"We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
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"My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater."
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"I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got."
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."
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"For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, universal, inexhaustible love. Then every one of you will have the power to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world with your tears."
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"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
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"As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians."
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"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
54
"I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"If you truly love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions."
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"We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right."
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"I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy."
49
"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."
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"Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility."
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"We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand."
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"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
48
"I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well."
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"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
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"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."
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"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
48
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
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"You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are."
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"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
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"When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill."
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"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."
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"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
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"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."
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"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
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"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."
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"Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning."
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"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
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"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."
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"When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!"
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"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
43
"Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood."
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"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."
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"If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt."
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"Every tub must stand on its own bottom."
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