Quotes About Community

Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

Look, I'm 41 with a six-year-old son, and even though I live in a building with a million kids, he doesn't have one friend there because there's no context for making that happen. I think there's a huge market for a connected building where I could broadcast to other parents that I want to set up a playdate for my child.

I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.

I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

One of the things I can't stand about this town is the back-stabbing. Where I grew up, we're front-stabbers.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.