Quotes About Involvement

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

Aside from being the funniest play in N.Y.C., '39 Steps' is also the only show crazy enough to ask me to be a part of it.

The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.

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In the years before then, he recalls, a very different breed filled the party's precinct positions; the sort of folks who "would donate a thousand-dollar check to the Republican Party, and do not a darn thing.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

He was not a particularly emotional man: he had never chosen engagement when the role of observer was available.

Information is the currency of democracy

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

Learned helplessness can be part of the ACoA trauma syndrome. In disaster situations, the smallest form of involvement can allow victims to be less symptomatic.

If I can't play, there's no reason to go. To watch the game without me in it, is just no point doing that.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.

I love it when people who don't normally see fashion shows see them, because they find it so exciting.

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

I am not interested in state politics.

When I was 16, my friends were in a drama group, and they asked me to join. I said no, I'm not interested, that it's not really for me.