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  • There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing. -- Bruce McLaren
  • Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore. -- Steve Martin
  • I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny. -- David Boreanaz
  • I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going. -- Dennis Christopher
  • You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. -- Edward Norton
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  • There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier. -- Peter Kinderman
  • Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised. -- Daniel Pinkwater
  • I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites. -- Robert Towne
  • I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.' -- Drew Seeley
  • I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen. -- Ellen Page
  • I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me. -- David Arquette
  • One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives. -- Oscar Romero
  • Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling? -- Frances Moore Lappé
  • So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything. -- Benjamin Carson
  • We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. -- William Hague
  • Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. -- Mahesh Babu
  • And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in. -- Hugh Shelton
  • I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore. -- Carrie Fisher
  • There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do. -- Earl Campbell
  • The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know. -- Ai Weiwei
  • I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering. -- Annie Lennox
  • You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy. -- Bubba Sparxxx
  • Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures. -- Jeff Sessions
  • Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly. -- David Suzuki
  • Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together. -- Edy Ganem
  • I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff. -- Oscar Isaac
  • I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. -- Sean Connery
  • I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. -- Steve Albini
  • I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa. -- John Hyams
  • Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. -- Eugene H. Peterson
  • The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. -- Al Franken
  • I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" . -- David Mandel
  • Ben Carson and I don`t have much in common politically. But the fact is when you have kids getting involved in the political process, doing their best to elect the candidates of their choice, that`s what the American democracy is about. -- Bernie Sanders
  • Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great! -- Adrian Bell
  • Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control. -- Pattie Mallette
  • I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. -- Eric Church
  • But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail. -- Terrell Owens
  • Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
  • I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life. -- Edmund Phelps
  • We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook 'experimented' with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work. -- Christian Rudder
  • I'll get involved in philanthropy. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I never get involved in policy. Never. -- Rick Warren
  • I don't get involved in record label politics. -- Leona Lewis
  • I encourage everyone out there to get involved. -- Troy Vincent
  • I don't often get involved with campaigns at all. -- Sam Altman
  • I often get too emotionally involved in my cases. -- Nancy Grace
  • I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman. -- Frank Bruno
  • I never get involved with the ladies I work with. -- Dirk Benedict
  • Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see. -- Ben Shahn
  • If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it. -- Peter McWilliams
  • When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. -- Elizabeth Joan Smith
  • Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. -- Barbara Bush
  • Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved. -- Tom Wilkinson
  • The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing. -- Willem Dafoe
  • You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them. -- Rory Kennedy
  • We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS. -- Gwen Moore
  • I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director. -- Dominic Monaghan
  • What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed. -- Rick Scott
  • Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. -- Larry Bird
  • Getting involved is so, so . . . involving. -- Vera-Ellen
  • They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. -- John Irving
  • Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done. -- Bethany Cosentino
  • If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort. -- Joe Jamail
  • Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them. -- Russell Simmons
  • I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal. -- Jules Shear
  • A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. -- Moby
  • Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved. -- Cobie Smulders
  • They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. -- Michael Zaslow
  • Emotional entanglements are messy. And if I don't get involved, I don't have to worry about getting hurt. -SHAYE -- Gena Showalter
  • Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved. -- Tara Stiles
  • When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved. -- Max Tundra
  • I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends. -- Temple Grandin
  • We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future. -- Jim Messina
  • As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco [his son] I'm getting interested in making a film for children. -- Guy Ritchie
  • I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved. -- Marina Keegan
  • Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it. -- Michael Marmot
  • Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult. -- Emily Giffin
  • I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day. -- Matt Kuchar
  • Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie. -- Eva LaRue
  • There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind. -- Mark Consuelos
  • It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released -- Mick Taylor
  • It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released. -- Mick Taylor
  • We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense. -- John Kasich
  • A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. -- John Kasich
  • I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster. -- Twyla Tharp
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