Contributing Quotes

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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I look at anything in nature and how things work-the stars, the pyramids-and I can`t imagine that there`s not some kind of design to it all. There`s got to be something big that we don`t understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That`s my faith. (Redbook, January 2006)

- Ellen DeGeneres

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

- Joschka Fischer

There were some contributing things, but I made mistakes, and that`s why I`m in this position. I`m not going to hide from it. If anything, it`s going to make me that much more focused, that much more hungry. Some people think I won`t be able to bounce back, but that`s my motivation.

- Chris Johnson

Work makes me feel productive, as though I`m contributing something. I like being productive and feeling productive.

- Barbara Eden

It was a disappointing year for me personally, because I didn`t perform at any time during the season the way I`m accustomed to performing. But on the positive side, when you consider where I came from, I still rallied out of it to be a contributing member on a good team. This year, being fully healthy, I expect to make more of an impact.

- Aaron Boone

It was a disappointing year for me personally because I didn`t perform at any time during the season the way I`m accustomed to performing. But on the positive side, when you consider where I came from, I still rallied out of it to be a contributing member on a good team. This year, being fully healthy, I expect to make more of an impact.

- Aaron Boone

Privatizing Social Security doesn`t make sense, and it`s out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

- Debbie Stabenow

I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I`ve been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that`s what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

- Ed Belfour

One of our goals in raising funds for the university is to tap into those households that are not contributing at all or on a consistent basis.

- Patricia Brown

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

- Ted Koppel

Certainly other delivery companies are beginning to realize the value of home delivery. But you couldn`t get a whole lot more fierce than you already were, ... Even if you look at it and say it`s not as profitable as b-to-b deliveries, it`s still contributing to our fixed costs. The more volume you can win, you can create density to make it more an more profitable.

- Steve Holmes

I`d never just want to do what everybody else did. I`d be contributing to the sameness of everything.

- Don Van Vliet

You feel like you are involved. You feel like you are contributing.

- John Knight

I know I`m not a threat to society or to Mrs. Ortolano. I want to be a contributing member of society. Please, your honor, give me that chance.

- Alex Kelly

I was on the field probably for every series and every play (in 2004), ... With this offense, I`m not, but I`m contributing. I still have to do my job to block, protect, catch the ball and run the ball. ... There are more chances for others to make plays. So, am I playing every play like last year? No. But we won.

- Jason Davis

Chris has an amazing ability to get the crowd going and get everyone singing along, ... He tries to make them feel very much that they`re contributing to the atmosphere of the place. I think if you can make people feel involved like that, then it makes for a better experience for the audience and for us on stage.

- Guy Berryman

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

- Jonathan Shapiro

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

- Richard Brown

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a part of the neighborhoods and communities affected by this disaster, and we are committed to contributing to the relief efforts now under way, ... On behalf of our company and all 61,000 of our employees, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is affected by this disaster.

- Ann Taylor

Los Alamos County is contributing to the recognition of our 25th Anniversary through a generous gift of $20,000 for the purchase of a permanent outdoor sculpture for the campus,

- Carlos Ramirez

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

- John L. Lewis

Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,

- Vint Cerf

We like Congress to know that Lafayette-West Lafayette is a vital community and a contributing community. We have concerns to express and needs to set forth, and they`ve been articulated well in locally prepared papers. Only by communicating regularly can we expect to be heard.

- Dana Smith

Obviously, the last several seasons, we revolved around Jessica. Now, we have to depend on five players all contributing and playing equal roles. Maybe we will have some players take more of a leading role, but we will definitely look to have a balanced offense and try to create things with our defense.

- Kelly McDonald

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

- Alan Lloyd

I think that the industry`s failure to embrace and create a legal form of downloading is contributing to an already acute problem.

- Alan Woody

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

- Alice Besterman

Currently, for every three workers contributing to Social Security there is one retiree receiving benefits paid for by those workers.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

- Amanda Zimmerman

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

- Amber Harris

Why do we do something like that? We need the city government and private sector contributing money for alternatives for them, not to step around.

- Amy Zeihen

When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.

- Andrea West

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

- Andrej Meszaros

From the employees` standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

- Andrew Levin

If you want to send in a donation, which I encourage you to do, please make sure you give serious thought when it comes to contributing to charity,

- Andrzej Gaska

Go Red For Women is grateful that so many celebrities are lending their time to advance our important women`s health mission. We are truly honored that so many notable women contributing their time to support such a noble cause.

- Arthur Phillip

That`s just the way we`ve been. Everybody`s been contributing RBIs here and there. Nobody`s just exploded.

- Ash Edmonds

It is good to see that everybody is contributing and that is what we`ve been striving for all season.

- Attorney Paul Mangieri

It was a good first dual meet with a lot of different kids contributing in the win.

- Barb Mancuso