Top 100 Quotes About Role
#1. Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon
#3. Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.
Graham Phillips
#4. I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
Barack Obama
#5. For Mormon women, however, motherhood is an identity, rather than a role.
Nicole Hardy
#6. I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.
Ernest Borgnine
#7. In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
Moshe Dayan
#8. Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.
Eve Hewson
#9. Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.
Rory McIlroy
#10. The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.
Dean Winters
#11. I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
Edvard Munch
#12. I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
Jonathan Brandis
#13. For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
Billy Collins
#14. It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush.
George W. Bush
#15. In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
Mardy Grothe
#16. What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.
Taylor Ho Bynum
#17. Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
Joan D. Chittister
#18. Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#19. The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
Idris Elba
#20. The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer
#21. I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.
Nicole Richie
#22. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.
Rufi Thorpe
#23. My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.
Raven-Symone
#24. Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
Moshe Sharett
#25. My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
Ashley Rickards
#26. My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#27. I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.
Deborah Cox
#28. Once you really understand your role ... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
C. Thomas Howell
#29. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.
Emily Thorne
#30. I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.
Eva Longoria
#31. We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually
Gregg Popovich
#32. The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.
Pope Paul VI
#33. I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.
Danny Meyer
#34. Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
Matt Mullenweg
#35. Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#36. Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
Keith Stanfield
#37. Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.
N. T. Wright
#38. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.
Jane Goodall
#39. The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
Louis Pasteur
#40. I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!
America Ferrera
#41. I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.
Boman Irani
#42. Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.
Julius Genachowski
#43. As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
David Suzuki
#44. No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.
Genelia D'Souza
#45. Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.
Mike Turner
#46. Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
Jared Diamond
#47. The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993
Tom Stoppard
#48. Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)
Milan Kundera
#49. Each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing else but what we can do best.
Dean Koontz
#50. It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.
Kym Whitley
#51. Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
George W. Bush
#52. Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen Covey
#53. But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
George W. Bush
#54. Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
Ann Landers
#55. If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
Pierre Bourdieu
#56. I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
Larry Wall
#57. The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.
Joe Pitts
#58. Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
Marcel Proust
#59. I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
Damon Albarn
#60. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
Jennie Finch
#61. We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Marian Wright Edelman
#62. I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.
Mark Millar
#63. My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
Ross Perot
#64. Point of View is not Miles Cooper's triumph any more, it is Isaac Robert's final staring role. - Miles.
Will Kostakis
#65. I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
Kristen Johnston
#66. Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder
#67. I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
Kristy Swanson
#68. I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
Indiana Evans
#69. It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
Anna Ford
#70. I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.
Demi Lovato
#72. In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
Ben Rattray
#73. I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale
#74. Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
Daniel Kahneman
#75. I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood
#76. The commitments we make have a powerful effect on us and play an important role in the things we do, the products we buy, and the habits we form. The
Nir Eyal
#78. I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.
Eric Walters
#79. I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.
Sanjay Rawal
#80. The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
Lee Siegel
#81. Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#82. I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
David Rockefeller
#83. I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.
Richard Branson
#84. The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
Paulo Freire
#85. By staying true to yourself, you keep your energy high and clear, and you provide inspirational role modeling for other healers and helpers. Integrity toward yourself is a gift to the world.
Doreen Virtue
#86. I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
Grant Heslov
#87. I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.
Cassandra Clare
#88. I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
Faye Dunaway
#89. My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.
Meg Whitman
#90. 'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
Laura Osnes
#91. I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.
Brandon Routh
#92. My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
Stephen Hawking
#93. As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.
Michael Loceff
#94. In recent decades, Europe has retreated to the conduct of soft power. But besieged as it is on almost all frontiers by upheavals and migration, Europe, including Britain, can avoid turning into a victim of circumstance only by assuming a more active role.
Henry Kissinger
#95. If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.
Andrea Roth
#96. An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.
Robert Loggia
#97. The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is ... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
George Gilder
#98. My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.
Rick Perry
#99. I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
Clay Aiken
#100. It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.
Jeffrey Sachs
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