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Quotes About Community

Pittsburgh's definitely the city where I learned how to be on a stage, hold a microphone, and interact with an audience. It's where I got my chops as an entertainer and as a performer, so I'm grateful to the queer community there because they are active and vocal and they care about each other.
~ Alaska
In me, the Texas agriculture community will always have a trusted friend and vocal ally.
~ Ronny Jackson
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
~ Naomi Scott
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
~ Naomi Scott
I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.
~ Keshia Knight Pulliam
Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.
~ Ann Leckie
Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
~ Karen Salmansohn
The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal.
~ Michael Bastian
At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the media - and this is the confusing thing about Muslim women in the West,. They are becoming Westernized at the same time as they are adopting their religious identity more strongly.
~ Munira Mirza
Coming to Arizona, I didn't know what to expect,' Griner said. 'The city, the team, the players, the organization, front office really got behind me and everything I wanted to do. I was very vocal on being a part of the LGBTQ community and wanting to get involved anyway I could.
~ Brittney Griner
I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.
~ Tony Hadley
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
~ Anita Baker
I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.
~ Erick Morillo
The neighbors prefer I don't do vocals at night. It gets a little iffy when I'm screaming.
~ Aesop Rock
I do guest vocals all the time.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
~ Janet Reno
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
~ Scott Weiss
My days at the Studio sustain all the work that I do today. They gave me a sense of legacy, a sense of belonging, and a community that made me believe in my talent and vocation.
~ Teresa Ruiz
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
~ Simon Hoggart
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
~ Mauricio Macri
A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.
~ John M. McHugh
I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd put the models in 'Vogue' to shame. I knew that Harlemites loved to dance, to pray, and to eat.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
~ Carine Roitfeld