Quotes About Community

None who has passed through the portals of UAA has been a failure. From the former Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, to Lakshmi, Cho, Nagesh, Moulee, Srikanth, ARS and I, all have been a part of UAA.

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

I hung out in Northeast Portland, I hung out in Beaverton. I knew a lot of people on every demographic. For me out there, I loved my time out there.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Portland basketball fans are the best basketball fans in the world.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it small and local, and usually they think if they just make great coffee, it's the best thing for the neighborhood.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business.

I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.

Violence and hatefulness have never been - nor will they ever be - who we are. This is the city I was born in, the city I was raised in and the city I love. Portland is also a united city.

I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.

Once my family grew bigger I loved Portland more.

Portland was such a great place to be while filming because there were a lot of things to do when we weren't shooting.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

To me, Portland, there's a lot of things to do out there especially if you have a growing family.

When I was with Washington, Portland, Detroit, everybody still got love for me and I still got love for them.

Everyone wants to come to Portland to play, whether for us or against us.

Obviously I've loved my time here in Portland.

That's why I like my job so much, cinema is a nation. I see on Twitter, there's people are calling themselves Portrait Nation. That's beautiful. To me, it's about campaigning for cinema, that's my commitment.

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn't portray them as idiots.