Community Quotes - Page 33

• As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

  Julian Castro

  Blessing, Opportunity, Usa

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• It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

  Gilles Duceppe

  States, Falsehood

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• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  P. Chidambaram

  Running, Jobs, School

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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• I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Heart, Thinking, Energy

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• For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

  Sean Duffy

  Needs, Credit, Unions

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• When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Desperate Situations, People, Broken

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• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Children, Responsibility, Feelings

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• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  Wendy Davis

  Lying, Air, Texas

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• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Marine, Cities

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• Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

  Barry Diller

  Children, Hollywood, Teeth

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Lines, Bears

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• 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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• Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Journey, Long, Wow

  "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.

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• You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.

  Steve Daines

  Boys, Issues, Farmers And Ranchers

  "MT-1: Daines-Gillan Race Keeps Low Profile". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 12, 2012.

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• My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

  Diane Abbott

  Country, Gun, Cities

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• I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

  Daniel J. Evans

  College, Thinking, Gone

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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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• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  Karin Fossum

  Writing, Cities, Would Be

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• I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

  Katie Finneran

  People, Theater, Feels

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• What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, Sticks, Provision

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Criminals, Division

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• The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

  Donald Glover

  Pay, Able, Making Money

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Writing, Best Job

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. March 19, 2010.

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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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