Community Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Uplifting, Talking, People

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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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• 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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• Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

  Peter Guber

  Sports, Religious, Years

  "Q&A – Peter Guber (Producer, Author – Tell to Win)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. February, 2011.

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• French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Design, Looks, Architecture

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Architecture, Individual, Scales

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Home, Writing, School

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Ideas, Energy, Unions

  "Sämtliche Werken, vol. III". Book by Josef Nadler, 1949-1957.

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, North Carolina

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

  Dylan O'Brien

  School, College, Class

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

  Janis Ian

  Gay, Rights, People

  "Janis Ian Talks About Her Grammy Nomination and LGBT Issues". Interview with Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

  Denise Juneau

  Believe, School, Kids

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• I grew up in an all-white community.

  Gayle King

  White, Grew Up, Grew

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• The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Communication, Generations, Individual

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• In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, Order, Play

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Parent

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