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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. -- Jesse Jackson
I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish. -- Eddie Marsan
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. -- Giles Duley
Great power involves great responsibility -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As designers, we have a great responsibility. -- Dieter Rams
Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly. -- Radhanath Swami
I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. -- Ruben Ostlund
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. -- Dean Acheson
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are. -- Jimmy Carter
There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that. -- Andriy Shevchenko
My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman. -- Missy Higgins
As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived. -- Dieter Rams
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school. -- Kate Bush
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward. -- Valentina Tereshkova
The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.' -- Christopher Lee
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. -- Susanna Kearsley
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility. -- Dalai Lama
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. -- Carl Jung
Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning. -- David A. Bednar
Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life. -- Stephen Marley
I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways. -- Vincent Piazza
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. -- Pele
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. -- Arthur Henderson
Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity. -- Dalai Lama
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility. -- Grant Morrison
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. -- Frank B. Kellogg
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility. -- Iyanla Vanzant
And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young. -- Jackie DeShannon
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Some people come to me and say, "Mr. Moody, don't you feel a great responsibility when you come before an audience like this - don't you feel a great weight upon your shoulders?" "Well." I say, "no; I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel. -- Dwight L. Moody
I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do. -- Trey Anastasio
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' -- Josh Keaton
The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy. -- Mike Love
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly. -- Q-Tip
I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny? -- Seth
When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
With great influence comes great responsibility. -- Melanie Iglesias
I take great responsibility in any character that I play. -- Jessica Chastain
I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music. -- Randy Jackson
I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility. -- Kanye West
Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest. -- Julian Barnes
Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.? -- Tiger Woods
The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world. -- Harry S. Truman
I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill. -- Erin Heatherton
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. -- Franz Kafka
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother. -- Fran Lebowitz
I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it. -- Chester W. Nimitz
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders. -- Billy Graham
I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. -- Roy Barnes
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. -- Thomas Sowell
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. -- John Nelson Darby
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases. -- Ronald Reagan
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. -- James Cameron
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... -- Robertson Davies
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. -- Simon Sinek
Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) -- Tom Angleberger
I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. -- Tom Robinson
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. -- Louis Kronenberger
Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them. -- Buck Brannaman
At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it. -- Rod Parsley
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age. -- Suzanne Vega
It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people -- Aslan Maskhadov
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong -- Tryon Edwards
The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive. -- Simon Sinek
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. -- Mallory Ortberg
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. -- Helen Keller
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others. -- John C. Maxwell
I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain. -- Pope Francis
Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it. -- Thomas Tull
You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs. -- Tony La Russa
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us. -- Paul Haggis
We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility. -- Haskell Wexler
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life! -- Pope Francis
We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility. -- Brian Sandoval
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set. -- Bill Walton

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