Quotes About Involvement

Who wants to watch the WBSS final without me in it?

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

I'm a firm believer when everybody in the community gets excited, it's a positive.

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

I love having a front-row seat on history, whether that's a White House briefing room or the campaign trail.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

I was kind of ignorant. Being naive - 'who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won't count' - that's kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.

Team player, man. It's not just me out there. All five guys got to contribute, and whoever comes in has to do the same.

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.

I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays.

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

The fact is I've been the kind of parent who has been there at every single sports day, my kids are achievers at school, scoring fantastic grades, they're part of the football and hockey team. In that aspect, people always saw me as a parent whose children have always gone from strength to strength.