- Nov 07, 2020
Community Quotes
Community is built, not just found.
These quotes cover community at different scales - a performer discovering their craft through local theater, the identity and security that comes from a shared racial or cultural community, and comedians building connection through shared inside jokes. Related reading in Communities Quotes.
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- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the New Jersey law enforcement community, and many other Americans, one of the biggest impediments to improved relations between the United States and Cuba is the continued safe haven provided to the fugitive, Joanne Chesimard.
- Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
- Four-Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'
- Guard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020