"It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it."
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"I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for."
"The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price."
"You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed."
"Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet."
"If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do."
"I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins."
"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."
"Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days."
"Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience."
"Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature."
"How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?"
"I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family."
"This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it."
"The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small."
"Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me."
"Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity."
"I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be."
"We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned."
"I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything."