“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
Source: The Way of Kings
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“Somebody Has To Do Something. . . It Seems Pathetic That It Has To Be Us.”
Source: Used in various version starting in September 28, 1988, while advocating for the preservation of the world’s rain forests. "Somebody Has To Do Something. . . It Seems Pathetic That It Has To Be Us" (Quote Investigator). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105474079
“Look the point is … er, what is the point? It is a tough job but somebody has got to do it.”
Toby Helm, "Boris Johnson named shadow arts minister", Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2004, p. 12.
On being appointed Shadow Arts Minister.
2000s, 2004
"The Duchess and the Bugs", 'Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
To Dr. G. M. Gilbert, after receiving the death sentence and getting annoyed more at the method of execution, hanging. Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995.
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 5, “Wolf Depository Incident” (p. 127)
“We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
As quoted in The Complete Speaker's Index to Selected Stories for Every Occasion (1967) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 16
Variant: We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 240
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Variant: We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
“Somebody has to be on the other side.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 14, Why Are The Little People Always Wrong?, p. 200
-Edited Version- Pastor Steve Anderson interviews Dr Kent Hovind (Re-upload) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4J7o62-w8, Youtube (January 22, 2015)