Quotes About Community

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

In the very early Seventies and the very late Sixties, nobody out here was originally from L.A.

It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.

One man won't make a difference against sixty.

Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.

I still recreationally skate at the roller rink with all the children.

I've always had a fascination with skate culture.

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

I think that's one of the best things about skateboarding. We're all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

I hope that skateboarding gets a lot of new fans out there and that people start to fall in love with it and get to realize that it's a really fun thing to do and a really fun thing to watch, especially as far as the competition goes.