Community Quotes - Page 28

• Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

  Tony Gilroy

  Moving, World, Used

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• People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

  Gordon Gee

  Crazy, College, Ohio State

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• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Law, September 11, Enforcement

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• Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

  John Garamendi

  Home, House, Problem

  "Democrats Mulling New Housing Bailout Plan". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2011.

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• The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.

  Marla Gibbs

  Years, Needs, Television

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• I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

  Joe Arpaio

  Trying, Together, Threatening

  "Arizona's 'one-pizza' Democrats taste success as GOP shares slice of the pie" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.

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• There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Groups, Lgbt

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• That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

  Dierks Bentley

  Party, Kids, Nashville

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• The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Believe, Issues

  Interview with Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. April 7, 2007.

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• We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Leader

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• We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Adventure, Men

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Two, Innovation

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• I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

  Brad Paisley

  Art, Media, Law

  Song: Celebrity

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• There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth.

  Gary Taubes

  Motivation, Creativity, Science

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• ... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

  Rene Dubos

  Civilization, Groups, Peculiar

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• The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Political, Moral

  Woodrow Wilson (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Careers, Body

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Opportunity, Diversity

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Opportunity, Taxation, Pay

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1918). “Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions”

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• Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

  Michael Chang

  Cheer, Asian, Want

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• We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

  Roger Daltrey

  Shepherds, Wonderful, Rich

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• My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

  Colin Farrell

  Song, Dublin, Traditional Music

  "Colin Farrell interview" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2010.

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• Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Spiritual, Evil, Disrespect

  "Scientology appealing to African-Americans" by Matthew Hay Brown, www.baltimoresun.com. September 7, 2009.

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