Quotes About Engagement

We all need to be reminded that democracy isn't just voting for the president every four years and then trusting him to fix things. Democracy is about getting together with your community to think together about your future.

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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: "I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing." If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say.

we have developed a series of emotional thermostats as well, by far the most potent of which is television itself. instead of really experiencing the highs and lows, pains and joys, that make up a life, many of us use TV just as we use central heating- to flatten our variations, to maintain a constant "optimal" temperature.

What do we see God doing? What is He doing in our church? What is God doing in our community? What is He doing around the world? How can we participate in what He is doing?

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I try to be available for life to happen to me

I try to be able for life to happen to me.

Ask not what your country can do for you," he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, "but what you can do for your country.

made to the American people. He

The world is filled with concern but also with hypocrisy. Hypocrisy on the part of people who see no evil and speak no evil to avoid becoming involved. --- Marcello Pera

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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.

Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

Singapore needs to be able to continue to add value to China in order for the relationship to be worthwhile for both sides.