Quotes by Community It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community. Sandy Smith communicationcommunitystrong [Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that. Sanjay Gupta marijuanacommunityyears I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago. Sandra Cisneros communitybrotherfather The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege. Sandra Cisneros mexicocommunitypeople I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an indigenous community, because that's where I feel at home. Sandra Cisneros united-statescommunityhome The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community. Santiago Calatrava touchingcommunitybeautiful Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically. Sandra Bullock connectionsnew-orleanscommunity Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear. Sandra Cisneros communityrightstwo One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. Sandra Cisneros communityhumbleway If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing. Sara Benincasa independentcommunitybook There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic. Sandra Cisneros gasolinecommunitybuying By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision. Sandra Cisneros paincommunitymean It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. Sara Bonnett Stein communityresponsibilityfriendship I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach. Sandra Cisneros communitygivingthinking Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries. Sandra Cisneros peace-withincommunitycountry The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to. Sara Bareilles welcomeusedcommunity We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's such amazing talent everywhere. It's exciting that now that there are these sort of new Hollywoods or new filmmaking communities that really benefit from these great faces and character actors and leading actors that just are fresh and exciting and bring an authenticity to the piece. Sandra Bullock talentcommunitycharacter It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing. Sandra Cisneros healthycommunityuse I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?" Sandra Cisneros kitchencommunitysorry As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair. Sara Genn communityartistsafe«157158159160161162163164165166167»
