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  • I love comedians. They're my community. -- Louis C. K.
  • I have always been an active part of my community. -- Salma Hayek
  • I like to go home and get involved in my community. -- Marshawn Lynch
  • My style is to service my community through entertainment and products. -- Sean Combs
  • I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me. -- Charles Rangel
  • I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community. -- Joe Baca
  • I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community. -- Gerry Adams
  • My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. -- Andre Braugher
  • Go home. Let me do my community service. -- Boy George
  • I essentially get to represent my community on television. -- Megan Hilty
  • Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service! -- Billy Crystal
  • I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me. -- Charles Rangel
  • The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power -- Narendra Modi
  • If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? -- Chinua Achebe
  • I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work. -- Mark Wahlberg
  • I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day. -- Chellie Pingree
  • In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society. -- Samina Baig
  • I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with. -- Sara Zarr
  • I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community. -- Michael Ian Black
  • For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic. -- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
  • Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise. -- Erykah Badu
  • Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it? -- Simon S. Tam
  • I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. -- Andrew Thomas
  • In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. -- Hilda Solis
  • I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up. -- Ray Rice
  • By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life. -- Esther Perel
  • I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first. -- Daddy Yankee
  • I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician. -- Charlemagne Palestine
  • Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better. -- Tom McCall
  • I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat. -- Wendy Davis
  • I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day. -- Ishmael Beah
  • When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. -- Dave Matthews
  • I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do. -- Louis C. K.
  • When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly. -- Paul Cook
  • In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education. -- Holly Near
  • In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community. -- Marco Rubio
  • I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking. -- Tim Howard
  • I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally. -- Gbenga Akinnagbe
  • Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. -- Clifford Stoll
  • Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader. -- Matthew Coon Come
  • I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food. -- Nhat Hanh
  • I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community. -- Gary Numan
  • Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give? -- Kelly Clark
  • I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease. -- Andie MacDowell
  • What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun? -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • ...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally. -- Irena Klepfisz
  • My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money. -- Jesmyn Ward
  • I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves. -- Pam Grier
  • The good news about New Mexico is we bring a lot of movies, a lot of television series out here, so I'm hoping I continue to work out here in New Mexico along with being part of my community. -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community. -- David Rubenstein
  • I was really inspired by the way people responded, and I wanted to tell that story [ 'Patriots Day']. It's never been more difficult or complicated for me to make a movie. It's about my home, my people, my community. -- Mark Wahlberg
  • If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy. -- Luke Scott
  • I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. -- LeSean McCoy
  • What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.' -- David Rubenstein
  • I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. -- Alice Walker
  • In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example. -- Fashawn
  • The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life? -- Jack Kornfield
  • During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't. -- Jesmyn Ward
  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. -- Fred Rogers
  • I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the way I could contribute was to do something in the film world. I never thought it would be a big deal at all. -- Josh Fox
  • I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents. -- Ronnie Musgrove
  • We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community. -- Michael Nutter
  • For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me. -- Jason Mraz
  • If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my career, and my private self (mind, body and spirit)? then you are more likely to produce harmony in your life, over the course of your life. -- Stewart D. Friedman
  • When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do. -- Common
  • What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women? -- Winona LaDuke
  • I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful. -- Ondi Timoner
  • Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. -- Richard MacDonald
  • The idea of service leads to community. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • My greatest work comes in the community. -- Marion Barry
  • Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward. -- Paul Parker
  • I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names. -- Gloria Allred
  • My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. -- Ken Livingstone
  • Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community. -- Charles Kennedy
  • I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. -- Cory Booker
  • My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. -- Chris Hayes
  • I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large. -- Martin Yan
  • Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide. -- Charlie Kimball
  • In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community. -- Rosa Parks
  • You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes. -- Tom Harkin
  • My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. -- Helene D. Gayle
  • My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. -- Colin Farrell
  • The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out. -- Sky Ferreira
  • I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church. -- Rachel Held Evans
  • My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. -- MH Mahdi
  • Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!" -- Chris Rock
  • I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. -- Beth Henley
  • My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community. -- Felicia Day
  • All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community. -- Chath Piersath
  • I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. -- S. Truett Cathy
  • No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family. -- Anchee Min
  • I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays -- Beth Henley
  • My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community. -- Prince Royce
  • My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection. -- Thalia
  • I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community, -- Johnny Weir
  • The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world. -- Luis Valdez
  • My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream. -- Nicole Ari Parker
  • To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign, -- Justin Amash
  • Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. -- Louis de Bernieres
  • What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America. -- Tom Vilsack
  • My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff. -- Rashid Johnson
  • The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too. -- Gregg Sulkin
  • The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself? -- Marco Rubio
  • I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard. -- Gia Coppola
  • After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college. -- Chris Rock
  • I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs. -- Jill Biden
  • I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community. -- Brother Ali
  • My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends. -- Barack Obama
  • Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor. -- Carmelo Anthony
  • Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college. -- Jill Biden
  • And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor. -- Tom Hayden
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