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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all. -- Meg Ryan
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no. -- Barbara Mikulski
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. -- Dick Van Dyke
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them. -- Wendell Berry
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family. -- Dan Savage
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. -- Dennis Prager
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. -- Susan Sarandon
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. -- William J. Clinton
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities. -- Betty Friedan
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility. -- Susan Eisenhower
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. -- Delphine de Girardin
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. -- Christine Pelosi
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well. -- Michael N. Castle
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.' -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family. -- Claire Denis
Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well. -- Annette Bening
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. -- Augustus Y. Napier
But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world. -- Valerie Jarrett
The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work. -- Kristina Schroder
There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in." -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas. -- Eva Cox
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. -- J. C. Watts
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family! -- John G. Miller
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation. -- Amit Kalantri
I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much. -- Jennifer Lawrence
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province. -- Maurice Duplessis
I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. -- Toni Cade Bambara
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you. -- Hank Azaria
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. -- Dan Quayle
A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility. -- Paul Young
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself. -- Cherrie Moraga
Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth. -- Ezra Taft Benson
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. -- Robin Hobb
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them. -- Akio Morita
I love my son. I love my kids, my family, Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. . -- Adrian Peterson
[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence. -- John McCain
I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook. -- Pat Benatar
Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged. -- Vaclav Havel
Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players. -- Pete Newell
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. -- Anne Lamott
Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family. -- Betty Churcher

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