Quotes About Community

I would hang out with my friends, and they would make me sing in exchange for food. I'd tag along just so I could eat. Then we would go to the park, and I'd sleep there with other homeless kids.

If I see someone with a gamer tag saying they're fans of the Bulls or the Heat I will trash-talk them and make it known I don't like them, but I don't let them know who I am. If I do, I have to change my gamer tag pretty fast.

When you're playing tag in Roblox; or when you're working in a pizza restaurant; or when you're flying as a bird - you're there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.

I get so many lovely messages and so many people tag me in their own crafting and upcycling and I love it.

Somebody will occasionally give me a line or a tag or something like that. It's rare that someone will give me a whole joke that I can use.

I was on Instagram or something, and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.

I work my tail off to make sure that our city, our fans, our team, our coaches can enjoy winning.

We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

Bloggers and stores and publications and brands and houses all need to sort of take a deep breath and relax because no one is going away. The brands aren't going away. The designers, bloggers, publications aren't going away.

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.

I wanted to take advantage of my platform as an NBA player to bring smiles, and also to raise money for social causes.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.