Quotes About Engagement

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out ways to even it out a little more.

From the first-year students' fall orientation to the board's annual budget-approval meeting, everything a healthy college does requires a shared sense of mission.

I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.

When I came to the Orlando Magic and saw work that they did in the community, I wanted to ripple off that and make a difference too.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

When I arrive at a club, I always look at it like I'm going to stay all my life. I couldn't work like I do otherwise.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.