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"My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water."
"With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases."
"All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs."
"My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing."
"One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you."
"It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!"
"Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."
"Either do not attempt at all or go through with it."
"Sleep is death without the responsibility."
"The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine."
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
"I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise."
"A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival."
"In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good."
"When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone."
"So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years."
"We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility."
"You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!"
"The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money."
"I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect."
