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I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

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• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationships
  • Celebration

• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Story
  • Sad
  • Relationships

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect
  • Mean
  • Relationships

• The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Long
  • Media
  • Relationships

• Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • You
  • Film
  • Relationships

• We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Courage
  • Comfortable
  • Conversations

• Try to be in as many relationships as you can.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Relationships
  • To Be
  • Many Times

• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Honest
  • Relationships
  • Maintain

• This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Nature
  • Society

• One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

  

  Angela Davis
  • May
  • American
  • Together

• I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Life
  • True
  • Person

• Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Perfect
  • Ugly
  • Aim

• When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Up
  • Married
  • Ends

• I think that everyone needs to grow and I think what happened was a growing experience. I learned a lot about myself and where I want to be in my life...and women in general and relationships. I'd never change anything in life. I don't believe in that. I'm a destiny guy.

  

  Dez Fafara Coal Chamber
  • Life
  • Women
  • Experience

• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Lifetime
  • Conversations

• There is no such thing as failure in love. Relationships end, but they don’t fail. Love is only a failure when you don’t learn and you don’t try.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Love
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in the United States, and I was fascinated by those communities and how they grew, how their politics developed, and the actual suffering of those people and the tribulations they went through.

  

  Ben Richards
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Australia

• I think a core principle of the Democratic Party has to be a defense of equal rights for every American. At the same time, when you look at the election, and not just the 2016 election, but the elections to come, Democrats have to do better than we did in 2016 in communities, in rural communities where people feel like they've been in a slow burn recession or depression for years, not just months.

  

  Neera Tanden
  • Depression
  • Communities
  • Elections

• It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

  

  Ricki Lake
  • Relationships
  • Communities
  • Conversations