Involved Quotes

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.

If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.