Quotes About Community

We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.

I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

When I lived in Knowle West, I must have been the same person I am now. It wasn't like someone came and sprinkled superstar dust on me. So that means all the kids who come from that kind of background can do what I'm doing. They're superstars just waiting to happen.

One of the things we pride ourselves on as WWE Superstars is connecting with the audience.

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool with strangers for the companionship. But the most productive members of each community are professional operators, making available their homes or cars as a way to earn or supplement a living.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

When Ex-Im gives companies the resources they need to sell their products abroad, their employees, suppliers and communities succeed at home.

I see my people having babies and moving into nice homes, not just at this company but at our suppliers and customers.

There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

If anything, all homes should have piped water supply and sanitation, which could improve public-health indicators and reduce infant mortality.

My biggest support and backbone have been my friends.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.