Quotes About Engagement

I need solid roles that provide scope for performance, even if it is just a few scenes.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

I don't believe in a solo role which doesn't have any meaning.

I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.

There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

I realized that there are two choices in life: one can be part of the solution or one can complain about the things they don't like.

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

I was a PE teacher, and when you teach, you can say, 'You have to do this.' It's an order. That's one way. Or you can say, 'Listen, we have these problems, so give me the solution,' and they have to think about it. Or you can say, 'Here are three options - which one is best?'

We all just want to see action, we all just want to see change and we all understand that we can play a part in that by being part of the solution in our local communities.

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others.

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

It's important the sheriff and the D.A. work with the community to realize real-world solutions. If they make decisions in silos, it will fall short.

Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.

You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.

I was ready and I still am to work with President Biden in good faith to find commonsense solutions to problems facing the country and to ensure the voices of Alabamians are heard.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!