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“I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.”

People Thinking Action Responsibility Taking Responsibility

“I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.”

Years Three Names Parent My Own Pay Responsibility Known Needed Bills Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Corey Feldman

“The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.”

Men Responsibility

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.”

People Important Values Decision Responsibility Careers Influence Unbelievable Livelihood Shareholders Shareholder Value

Author:Andrea Jung

“When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.”

People Thinking Want Trying Made Kids Young Responsibility Aerosmith

Author:Steven Tyler

“My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.”

Life Is Responsibility Complicated Juggling

Author:Michael Jackson

“I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.”

Children Age Young Parent Deals Responsibility Young Age Oldest Child

Author:Suzanne Vega

“Support is really important to me. It's quite a responsibility when people are paying for tickets. I've spent ten years playing for free, now it's like, bloody hell people are spending a tenner and I want it to be a great show and I really don't subscribe to having a crap support band.”

People Want Years Important Shows Responsibility Support Hell Band Ten Spending Bloody Tickets Crap

Author:KT Tunstall

“When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.”

Dream Responsibility Live Life Your Dreams Taking Responsibility

Book:Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You

Source: Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You

“Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.”

“Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!”

“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.”

“I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.”

Feels Writing Kind Sometimes Facts Form Wish Responsibility Direct

Author:Stuart Adamson

“My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.”

Real Past Night Sleep Responsibility Telling The Truth Every Night Grounded

Author:Jimmy Wayne

“It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.”

Trying Children Made Matter Hard Age Lying Responsibility Careers Bed No Matter What Mum Motto Taking Responsibility

Author:Lisa Maffia

“The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of - if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn't she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That's the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man.”

Ifs Men Years Reason Feelings Home Care Individual Left Responsibility Struggle Mom My Family Assuming My Mom Take Care Grandmother My Sister My Grandmother Aunt Wanting More

Author:Petey Pablo

“It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.”

Way Want Needs Character Desire Deals Responsibility Vision Depends Asking Shoes Filmmaker Bats Clown Screenplays Mcdonalds Ronald Mcdonald

Author:Johnny Depp

“What is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton done to this country? That the most basic responsibility of an administration is to protect the safety and security of the American people.”

People Country Done Responsibility Security Protect Safety Clinton Administration Barack Safety And Security

Author:Chris Christie

“There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.”

People Seems Care Social Responsibility Happenings Take Care Vulnerable Decent Sensible Social Responsibility

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn't buy my records if my records wasn't good. I'm being who i am in the record.”

People Ifs Mean Real President Responsibility Records Who I Am

Author:Tupac Shakur

“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”

People Want Trying Form White Attention Responsibility Color Like You Conscious Lays Privilege Patterns Checks Accounting

Author:Bocafloja

“I've seen definitive change in the mountains. I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in front of us, and then we pass it on to the next generation. I don't think we've done a great job with our responsibility to leave the earth a better place than what we were born into.”

People Thinking Done Earth Jobs Next Born Responsibility Generations Fronts Mountain Concern Better Place Next Generation Future Generation Great Job

Author:Jeremy Jones

“I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.”

People Giving Heart May Young Interest Responsibility Concerned Adapting Best Interests At Heart

Author:Len Elmore

“A new era of responsibility is here.”

Responsibility Eras New Era

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.”

People Use Care Responsibility Military Resources Decided Financial Various Take Care Humanitarian Severe Korea North Korea

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!”

Believe I Believe Deals Responsibility Accepting Citizens Racism Constant Prison Privilege

Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

“I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.”

People Feels Stills Responsibility Huge My Family

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“If you get yourself out of politics, religion, everything, and think as a human, think based on love to everybody, at that moment you have a choice: to be an animal, or to be a human. I choose to be a human being, with conscience and responsibility.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Moments Choices Human Beings Animal Responsibility Conscience That Moment

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.”

Littles Wanted Bits Responsibility Roles Little Bit Taking Responsibility Getting Old Getting Older Leadership Roles

Author:Chris Bosh

“People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.”

People Spiritual Spirituality Responsibility Taking Responsibility Relationship With God Spiritual Relationship

Author:Echo Bodine

“I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music and sports, that I enjoyed. So, I'm trying to do my part, and I believe that all of us with a privileged background who are fortunate enough to have had that kind of access have a responsibility to try to pass it on.”

Trying Believe Kind Children Enough Opportunity I Believe Sports Responsibility Deserve Including Educational Access Backgrounds Defined Enjoyed Fortunate Privileged

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.”

People Way Wells Sometimes Whole Facts Used Social Differences Responsibility Argument Censorship Social Responsibility

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.”

Responsibility Records Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Talib Kweli

“Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.”

Song Decision Responsibility Band Members Guitar Interviews Cobain Business Decisions

Author:Courtney Love

“At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.”

Thinking Courses Responsibility Middle Position Defeat Rings Noses One Time Punk Stereotype Sense Of Responsibility Middle Ground

Author:Michelle Shocked

“When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.”

People Made Sometimes Matter Play Remember Easy Sound Responsibility Records Produce No Matter What Good Things Guitar Like Me Playing Guitar

Author:Robin Guthrie

“Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.”

Thinking Way Done Choices Responsibility

Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.”

Thinking Matter Facts Responsibility Too Much Impossible Air Breathing Matter Of Fact

Author:Jacob Gelt Dekker

“Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?”

Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

“Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.”

Responsibility Democracy

Book:The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man

Source: The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man

“As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.”

Ifs Self Done Parent Responsibility Teach Focus Wonderful Taught Discipline Concentration Self Discipline

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.”

Secret Responsibility Skills Victoria Life Skills Victoria's Secret

Author:Erin Heatherton

“The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.”

World Rooms Responsibility Theory Periods Ethics Profit Unhappy Investors Cheat Business Ethics Fiduciary

Author:Seth Godin

“In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.”

Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”

“For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.”

World Looks Long Wanted Humanity Responsibility Share Greed Consideration Outrageous Lack Of Responsibility

Author:Shari Arison

“You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.”

Matter Beautiful Responsibility Tasks Noble Epic Things That Matter

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.”

Wells Kids Responsibility Worry Four Wife Relish Great Responsibility

Author:Eddie Marsan

“Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.”

Deals Responsibility

Author:Patrick Califia

“With freedom comes responsibility”

Responsibility

Author:Jesse Ventura

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