- Focal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Responsibility Quotes
What it means to own your part.
This set looks at responsibility as something personal rather than shared, whether that means revising a script until it works or declining to answer for anyone else's choices. It connects to the themes explored in our Decision quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
- Precious
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
- I Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
- Nov 07, 2020
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Europe does not understand that our sister continent, Africa, a stone's throw away, is going to face a demographic explosion, if there is no real economic and political restructuring, if we do not understand we have a collective responsibility for Africa, there is not a fence high enough to stop people coming to Europe.
- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020