Quotes About Involvement

I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.

I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.

People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.

Every day, we're learning about what's happened with global warming and what's happening all around the world, and our employees and our customers are really feeling that it's time to step up and make a difference.

I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn't something that I should probably disclose.

The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.

I've always wanted to be a part of the 'Star Wars' world; the films were very important to me. All my older cousins were huge fans, and I wanted to belong to that community.

I didn't come to Washington D.C. sit on the sidelines.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.