Quotes About Involvement

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is something where you contribute, but not money.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.

Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.

I speak passionately. I drive passionately. If I hit a ball, I will do it passionately, too. Because I don't understand how you go through life without involvement. Whatever I am doing in my life, whether big or small, I am 100 per cent involved.

Fans want to see their favorite players as invested in games as they are, regardless of the perceived importance.

I want to judge the nannies that's around my child. I don't want to pay for a nanny that I never met, that I never got a chance to interview. That's not the life I want for my child. I want to be involved 100 percent in all decisions made. This my flesh and blood.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I just lost interest in performing.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.