Quotes About Engagement

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.

When ROH came to me, they made it very clear they wanted me on their team. It wasn't a case of them finding me, I chose them. I knew they were the company for me.

Borderlands' asks you to pick a class, and once you've chosen that character class, you've committed yourself to that game session.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

The people in Cincinnati have gotten to know me.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

Most people think it's a linear relationship: I speak, you listen. Actually, it's a circle, because the way you listen affects how I speak, and the way I speak affects the way you listen.

The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way, even the circus entertains.

I'm not a big festivalgoer as in, like, a citizen.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.

Every citizen is responsible for the society in which we are living.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.