#responsibility

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. ↗

— David Attenborough

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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ↗

— James Baldwin

#him #people #produced #responsibility #who

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? ↗

— Christian Bale

#desire #even #fail #go #i

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#coffee #decisions #department #economics #had

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#early #fans #hip #hip hop #hop

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. ↗

— Joan Blades

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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #always #been #liberty #me

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#athletes #biggest #came #carry #comes