#willingness

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs. ↗

— Michael Newdow

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

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The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

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