Quotes About Community

I think it's important for industry to do well. But I want them to do well and do good at the same time.

It's great to have girlfriends who are in the industry, that you know have your back.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

I guess my Indy friends don't always love to hear this, but yeah I root for the Pats.

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it's inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity. So people tend to stay there. I still have some friends there that never left.

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.

A bunch of my fans have come up to me and said, 'Because of you, and because you came out, I have finally begun to accept myself.' That is infinitely incredible for me. I didn't expect to get to the point where I would own up to it within myself.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Cruces is like my town, where I grew up, where my heart is... All the teachers and coaches and people who have really influenced my life are from there.

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I'm not influencing the youth in no bad way. I'm doing can drives at my shows.