Quotes About Community

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

You ask somebody right now who are the top two or three sack persons and they couldn't tell you. You're a professional and you want to perform and you want to achieve those goals. But being out with the people and giving back to the community, it's going to be more impactful and long lasting.

I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

I have the advantage of many perspectives as someone who has lived in different kinds of communities: as a woman, as someone who previously identified as a lesbian, as someone who is a person of color. I've had a lot of life, so that informs what I do.

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.