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“If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Eye Young Certain Girl Responsibility Deserve Look Up Public Eye

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.”

People Thinking Kind Important House Wealth Levels Responsibility Rich Friends Attributes Furniture Rich People Immature Feckless

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Left Responsibility Audience Dangerous Response Profession

Book:Conversations with Erica Jong

Source: Conversations with Erica Jong

“I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.”

Thinking Interest Community Responsibility Crisis Humanitarian Addresses Aggression Instability Displacement Global Community

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity.”

Thinking Should Kind Use Light Responsibility Positivity African American Platforms Stance Stand For Something

Author:Misty Copeland

“I don't think I'll ever get used to the pressures of fame. I have two-pointsomething million followers on Twitter, and if I say something, they all listen. It's crazy! I shouldn't be allowed that responsibility.”

Ifs Thinking Two Used Responsibility Millions Crazy Fame Pressure Followers Followers On Twitter

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.”

“We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.”

Thinking Way Humans May Together Human Beings Responsibility Remarkable

Author:Simon Sinek

“I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.”

Ifs Thinking Men Responsibility He Man Female Males Soviet Exes Obliged Pragmatic

Author:David Bezmozgis

“And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.”

Thinking Needs Care America Responsibility Generations Deserve Protection Health Care Senior Getting Old Getting Older Greatest Generation

Author:John F. Kerry

“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”

“I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.”

Thinking Values Individual Community Responsibility Gone Republican Constant Democrat Inconsistent Individual Responsibility

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.”

Thinking Culture Responsibility Illusion Taking Responsibility

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.”

Thinking Children Play Individual Sports Effort Responsibility Team Hockey Playing Sports

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.”

Thinking Whole Able Given Force Responsibility Our Lives Sight Burden Vehicle Constructs

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.”

Thinking Men Important Past Opportunity Responsibility Environment Rewards Available Corporate Participants

Author:Betty Friedan

“The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Mother Responsibility Taught Like You Percent Faults

Author:Byron Katie

“I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.”

Thinking World America Responsibility Moral Technology Moral Leadership

Author:Gene Cernan

“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”

Thinking Should Done Language Responsibility Cases Dangerous Demand Flow Should Have Should I English Language Ebb And Flow

Author:Chris Pine

“I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.”

Thinking Government Individual Strong Responsibility Liberty Republican Defense Traditional Freedom And Liberty Limited Government Individual Freedom National Defense Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Olympia Snowe

“I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.”

Thinking Moments Differences Responsibility Findings Responsible You Choose Shocking Finding Happiness Moments Of Happiness

Author:Natascha McElhone

“Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.”

Thinking Problem Courses Responsibility Careers Doors Mets Blame Actresses Contrast

Author:K Callan

“You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.”

Thinking Responsibility Willing Responsible Victim Limitation Infancy

Author:Margery Wilson

“I dont know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Should Inspiration Responsibility Shining Inspired Honestly Chicks Be Inspired

Author:Angela Bettis

“I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.”

“I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.”

Ifs Thinking Should Persons Felt Responsibility Changed Pursue Passive

Author:Bob Filner

“I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.”

People Thinking Want Country Responsibility

Author:Jon Bernthal

“Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.”

Thinking Responsibility

Book:The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

Source: The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

“I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.”

Thinking Way Feels Children Made Jobs Remember Goal Responsibility Destiny Inspire Proud Independent Deeper I Realized Japan Independent Women Independent Thinking Inspire Women

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”

“I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.”

Thinking Government Decision Responsibility Huge Consequence

Author:Gerry Adams

“Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.”

Thinking Kids Responsibility Pressure Stressed Under Pressure

Author:Nancy Lublin

“I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.”

People Thinking Giving Made Shows Decision Responsibility Giving Up Concern Dresses Quitting Sentimental Show Business Make People Smile

Book:The Heart of a Woman

Source: The Heart of a Woman

“...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.”

Thinking Years I Can Father Responsibility My Family Twenties Seven Seven Years Thirteen Crossroads Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Sunshine and shadow

Source: Sunshine and shadow

“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.”

“Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?”

Thinking Moments Evil Responsibility Shining Thoughtful Single Mom

Book:Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

Source: Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

“The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.”

Thinking Way States Christian Values Religious United Responsibility United States Share Media Biblical Way Of Thinking

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.”

Thinking Want Trying Looks Ends Sound Responsibility Aging What You Want Retirement Jealous Respectable Marketers Boomers Being Jealous Charades

Author:Jerry Della Femina

“We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Motivational Responsibility Situation Incredibles Crush Taking Responsibility Might Have Been Pathways Success Or Failure

Book:Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

“I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.”

Thinking Men Want Responsibility Air Abandonment Sexiness

Author:Julie Christie

“Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.”

People Thinking Mean Care Parent Responsibility Degrees Concern Disagree Robots Sibling

Author:Jake Schreier

“I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.”

Thinking Littles Artist Responsibility Crisis Deeper Times Of Crisis

Author:Bruce Pavitt

“I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.”

Thinking Needs Culture Responsibility Media Tears Approach Intellectual Responsible Raises Property Hip Hop Rap Handle Hips Journalist Hops Print Educate Intellectual Property Depiction

Author:KRS-One

“I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.”

People Thinking Knows Ideas Certain Responsibility Duty One Day Wake Up Dawn Ghastly Inexorable Prams

Author:Prince Charles

“At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.”

People Thinking Long Matter Hard Care Hours Responsibility Hard Work Office Enterprise Great Work Sense Of Responsibility Long Hours Netflix

Author:Reed Hastings

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”

“I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.”

Thinking World Lying Responsibility Fashion Demand Variety Collectives Fashion World

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.”

Thinking World Important Kids Mother Values Responsibility Travel Daughter My Daughter Travel The World

Author:Salma Hayek

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