Community Quotes
-
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
Ira Sachs
-
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Dennis Rodman
-
I love comedians. They're my community.
Louis C. K.
-
In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
Bill Owens
-
In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
John M. McHugh
-
I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
Jeremy Lin
-
The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
Craig Mello
-
I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.
Cory Monteith
-
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Klaus Schwab
-
Central to achieving progress in Afghanistan - and to setting the conditions necessary to transition security tasks from the international community to the Afghan government - is increasing the size and capability of ANSF.
David Petraeus
-
I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.
Ted Olson
-
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.
Afrika Bambaataa
-
Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.
Jennifer Hyman
-
Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.
Jill Scott
-
If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.
Derrick Jensen
-
My greatest work comes in the community.
Marion Barry
-
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.
Sebastiao Salgado
-
Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
Ramana Maharshi
-
As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
Burgess Owens
-
In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
Ani DiFranco
-
Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.
Opal Tometi
-
If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.
Adam Neumann
-
I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to be someone that's comfortable in every community, has to be someone that represents all of us.
Antonio Villaraigosa
-
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
Margaret Chan