Role Quotes - page 2

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. (Ann Richards)

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

Jesse Ventura

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

John Cheever

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Václav Havel

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

Muhammad Yunus

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask.

Jim Morrison

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Studs Terkel

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Robert Kagan

What I need is to believe in myself again - for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. (Pierre de Coubertin)

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Jean Cocteau

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Walt Disney

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Andy Stern

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

Andrew Weil

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

Walter Russell Mead

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

Joseph Rotblat

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Bong Joon-ho

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Britt Robertson

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

Bernie Siegel

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role. (Dieter Rams)

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

Eva Herzigova

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

Lars Peter Hansen

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

William Weld

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Andrew Shue

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