I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.
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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The mora... PETER FONDA We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can&... GUY SPIER We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual ... JON HUNTSMAN, JR. We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to g... JOEL OSTEEN One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we under... BERNARD MARCUS We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the f... HOLLY NEAR Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politic... NANCY PELOSI When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our ... BLAIR UNDERWOOD 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don... TOM BRADY For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't liv... SHERYL SANDBERG We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social prob... THOMAS PIKETTY I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything... MICHELLE PHAN And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don... LEE SCOTT If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, t... JOYCE MEYER Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the worl... DAVID SUZUKI I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladde... GEORGE H. W. BUSH Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many... JARED DIAMOND Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We ... STEVE JOBS When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us... DAVID AMRAM To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through per... GIGI HADID The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change w... ANTHONY MACKIE I'm just trying to find ways to get all our guys involved and pick up a win - it doesn't matter if I... BRANDON EVANS I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations o... IRVIN D. YALOM Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not m... RICHARD BRANSON It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the rig... MATT APUZZO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I am running for the U.S. Senate because I believe in the promise of America. God has blessed our na... DON STENBERG The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. W... HAILEY BALDWIN There are many voices in the world. The social environment will try to mould us in the image and lik... DRAGOS BRATASANU We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We... MARGARET D. NADAULD Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we... BEN SHAPIRO I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as t... DALAI LAMA With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It'... DAVID HENRY HWANG We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want t... ALLAN HOUSTON I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don... RUSSELL SIMMONS Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that th... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prev... THICH NHAT HANH I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with s... THOMAS S. MONSON We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a mat... BARACK OBAMA Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that conn... MARK ZUCKERBERG How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied t... VICTORIA OSTEEN I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some ... DEYTH BANGER i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to a... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step ... ROBIN S. SHARMA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the ... DEIDRE HALL We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it dimini... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It has shown us all how our faith -- whatever our religion -- can inspire us to work together in fri... QUEEN ELIZABETH Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us ... CAROLYN MAHANEY The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired... FELIPE VI OF SPAIN I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ... AGNES OBEL On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in... NIKKI HALEY I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many wor... FRANS LANTING About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It'... PAULO COELHO And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent t... ROBERT MUELLER There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. W... MARY CROSBY Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fig... ALAN J. PAKULA To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from th... MAYA ANGELOU I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I wa... JEFF BEZOS The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep try... COLIN ANGLE Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take peopl... DARYL GATES Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to man... TREVOR NOAH I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try t... LEOS CARAX I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... STEPHANIE MILLS Good and bad are not of different kinds but only vary in degree; both vary in quantity not in qualit... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the... TERESA HEINZ Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, ... LAURA BUSH I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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