Quotes About Community

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.

I didn't own a guitar when I was in the Germs. I would just borrow one from the opening band.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

It's wonderful to see parents come together and openly support their LGBTQ kids at my shows.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

After growing up in a military family and going to an Evangelical Christian school, to look around and see lesbians and gay men of all ages and colors living their lives openly, it was awesome.

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

All business must have a social license to operate.

Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.