Quotes About Community

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

Naples reminds me of Senegal, as when a foreigner arrives, everyone does their best to help him out.

I've been a part of a couple of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia nights, and watching the Dead's fan base be so passionate reminds me of what Jerry was so much about, making the community a better place.

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

I love big events. It reminds me of the old days, when I knew everyone on the fight card, and it wasn't just one fight.

You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.

When I put on our U.S. kit, I do it for my family and for my country. But I understand now that I also do it for every single American girl out there who wants to see someone who looks like them - someone whose story reminds them of their own - when they watch their women's national team.

I can't tell you how nice and genuine the people of San Antonio are... it reminds me a lot of Australia.

'Greenleaf' never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.

It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

If you read about millions of people doing this and millions of people doing that, history seems remote and inaccessible.

In a modern world where so much globally is homogenised it was exciting to discover the individuality of the different remote communities.

There's no running water in a remote Aboriginal community? I can do something about that, let's go do it. I've been brought up that way. So political activism, is it that? I don't know, because that's not what makes me go, 'yeah let's do this now.'

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

If we can somehow start to remove shame from struggle, if we can truly see people and care for them as our fellow human beings, we'll start to see how many of us are also fighting in our own way.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.

Things like Digg, Twitter, etc., are really interesting because they remove the idea of the all-mighty producer and puts tools into the hands of everybody.