“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Responsibility quotes
280 responsibility quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
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“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
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“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
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“You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.”
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“- Rose Summerspring: It's not up to us.
- Emily Summerspring: Who's it up to, Rose?”
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- Jewel: 'Cause you think about... ten years from now, where will you be, what'll you be doing? Now, whenever I close the door, I think: "Oh, is this the last time I'll ever have a chance to do whatever that thing was?"
- Forrest Tucker: You know what I do when the door closes?
- Jewel: What's that?
- Forrest Tucker: I jump out the window.
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“- Ben Bradlee: We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?
- Kay Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.”
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“It's a world where you think actions have no consequence, where guilt is cloaked by anonymity, where there are no fingerprints. An invisible universe filled with strangers, interconnected online and disconnected in life.”
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What you do, what you become, is not my concern. The world is full of so-called "men" like you, and, in a perfect world, anything we do comes with a price, but, this ain't a perfect world.
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“The President actively sanctioned the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, and lied to the public. I am proud to be responsible for his impeachment, and I will do everything I can to ensure a smooth transition of power.”
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“That child in me took responsability for everything that happened.”
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“- Carly Jones: I don't believe this. You steal a car and it's my fault. You evade arrest and it's the cops' fault...
- Nick Jones: One of 'em took a swing at me.
- Carly Jones: You get kicked out of the house, it's Mom and Dad's fault. You lose your football scholarship and it's the coach's fault! You can't keep a job for more than two weeks...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Matt Prater: [about his father] All he does is boss me around. He doesn't even try to understand me.
- Grant Taylor: Matt, you can't judge your father by his actions and then judge yourself by your intentions. It doesn't work that way. You're not responsible for him. You're responsible for you.”
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“Now we've shaken the tree. Let's wait and see what falls on our heads.”
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“- George Newton: I don't want to be responsible for 5 dogs!
- Ryce Newton: You don't have to be responsible. Dad, we've been responsible - we've gone through hell with these dogs. And if being responsible means we have to give them up now, then, I hate responsibility. Dad, we kept them alive just like you and mom kept us alive. Ad you're not...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
- Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.”
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“I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way.”
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“Remember, guns don't kill people, we kill people.”
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“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
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“Admiral, if we were to assume these whales were ours to do with as we pleased, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction.”
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“Do you know what a pain you are? You think the rules don't apply to you. There's greatness in you, but there's not an ounce of humility. You think that you can't make mistakes, but there's going to come a moment when you realize you're wrong about that, and you're going to get yourself and everyone under your command killed.”
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“Like my father before me, I became leader of the Cimarron herd. And with that honor came responsibility.”
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