Quotes About Community

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live in dumpy slum apartments and would knife each other for $5. Jerome prefers the painters and the film-makers who live in Soho and Tribeca. There's money there, at least the things they fight about are real.

I have long since resolved to be a Jew ... I regard that as more important than my art," R.B. Kitaj and Arnold Schoenberg declared. Hannah Wilke said: "Feminism in a larger sense is intrinsically more important to me than art." No one over called these men bad Jews.

Somehow this redneck town allows the possibility of a middle-aged New York City woman bouncing round a house alone more generously than Woodstock or East Hampton. It's a community of exiles anyway. No one asks me any questions 'cause there's no frame of reference to put the answers in.

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Oy, veh ! And where were the Italian speakers yesterday when we needed them?" "Today we need Russian!" "Russian? Who needs Russian? I need Litvaks! Are there any Litvaks in here? Anyone here even know what the heck a Litvak is?" "And I need—excuse me, dearie, what language is that you're speakin'?—Well, gracious me, I don't even know what I need! A mind reader, maybe!

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Still writing tales?" he said. I told him yes and he nodded once, returning his attention to the snake. Very few of the boys I grew up with had finished high school, but they accepted that I was a writer. I was merely doing what other men did—following in my father's footsteps. Sonny was a plumber. The son of a local drunk was the town drunk in two towns. Sons of soldiers joined the army. That I had become a writer was perfectly normal.

Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish.

Welcome to the only game in town.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Yukon Men is a popular Discovery Channel reality series about the citizens of the small town of Tanana in central Alaska. It portrays wolves as highly dangerous predators that besiege the town and threaten the safety of all of the residents. One of the show's characters, Charlie, says, "Wolves

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.

ALL THOSE GOOD COPS YALL LOVE BRINGING UP WHEN YOU SAY NOT ALL COPS ARE BAD SEEM TO NEVER BE AROUND WHEN THEIR COMRADES ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE

I'd always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself- people like to see that.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Climbing gyms came to be seen as a good place to hang out and get fit in an encouraging environment.