Quotes About Engagement

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

I literally post swing videos. Like, how is that interesting? But I've created such a following, and they're loyal fans. It's really cool to create a community around something I love, and that they love, too.

I have parents coming to the live show saying that they watch my videos with their kids. I have teachers saying they have used the videos with their students.

Prior to the online platform, I had to make sure I go around and have conversations and go to schools and make appearances. But now with online presence, I try to put out videos and different posts every day. I try to inspire.

I just feel like people would watch me do anything. I could make two hour videos of me putting bracelets together and people would watch that.

I just feel like my audience is interested in anything that I do. Dare I say, even when I was making my science experiment videos, they lived for that.

I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

Police can't be successful if they're not viewed as legitimate by the community, and a community will not be safe if the police are not engaged in a respectful, constitutional partnership with the community.