Quotes About Community

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

What I'm hoping is that people in my age group will grow up with me and keep listening.

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That's something that I've experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

When I was younger, we lived in a horse community.

It's my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write.

I do charity work for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the USO. I made all the money I'm ever going to need - all my family is every going to need - so I try to give back to the community.

Peyton Manning donated, I think, $10 million to start a children's hospital here in Indianapolis. Whenever you see something like that, you go, 'Okay, not only can I be great on the football field, I can also be great off of the field.'

We are a resilient people defined by our hospitality.

Whether you're African-American or white, you're concerned about rural hospitals closing.

People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.