Quotes About Community

'Neechi rajniti' does not mean politics of backward communities. Modi has distorted the statement to link with caste to play backward card for political gains.

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood.

I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

My main home is in Morecambe Bay on a little island called Roa, where there are 13 houses, a lifeboat station, a boat club and a cafe.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.

When I go to the gas station or the restaurant, people still come up and say hi.

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.