Quotes About Community

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

I don't believe in models that say you just knock on this door, you just go to this community, and you'll get elected. I think you go everywhere, and you listen to everybody. Everybody's got ideas.

A lot of models say you aren't a real model unless you've lived in a model apartment with six or seven girls.

People like me who are here in flyover country, we're tired of East Coast moderates.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.

I kind of feel like the job of actors and writers and people who make television and movies is to keep people company. In whatever modest way I'm able to accomplish that, I want to.

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

There's a momentum to being committed to a group that you think is good, and there's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to make your choice a good choice.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

I loved Mommy and Me. I would go every day of my life. I had fun. I thought it was the best thing ever.

When people stop me to say they love 'Workin' Moms,' it's not just that the show makes them laugh or is a great escape - they tell me my, or another, character's story is their story.

Do not judge other moms on how they raise their children.

I love football, but I also want to give back. I want to take care of kids and single moms, so it's not only about playing football. I want my life to matter in that way.