"I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models."

-- John Amaechi

#Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”
“I think weâ€™ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.”
“Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.”
“AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.”
“When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”

Source : Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.676, Delphi Classics
“Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.”

Source : "A Woman's Work ... / India native Kavita Ramdas spins her privileged background into gold for underprivileged women at S.F.'s Global Fund for Women" by Jonathan Curiel, www.sfgate.com. November 10, 2002.
“Itâ€™s funnyâ€”when people call you â€œshy,â€ they usually smile. Like itâ€™s cute, some funny little habit youâ€™ll grow out of when youâ€™re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it feltâ€”really being shy, not just unsure at firstâ€”they wouldnâ€™t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. Itâ€™s not cute at all.”
“All writers are vampires.”

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