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Community Quotes
"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."
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"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."
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"In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community."
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"I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community."
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"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."
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"We need the vision of interbeing-we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this is the well-being of "that, so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side; there is no evil side."
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"The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations."
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"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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"I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world."
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"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
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"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
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"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
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"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story."
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"No, I don't belong to a retirement community."
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"Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers."
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"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."
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"I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community."
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"I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community."
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"What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?"
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"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."
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"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community."
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"Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had."
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"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
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"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level."
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"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."
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"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."
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"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
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"I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected."
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"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map."
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"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."
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"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends."
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"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."
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"My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day."
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"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."
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"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."
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"However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems."
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"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
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"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already."
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"Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken."
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"Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another."
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