Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.
