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“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”

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Author:Lionel Richie

“Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.”

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Author:David Sanborn

“We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.”

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Author:David Selby

“In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.”

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Author:Donna Shalala

“I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.”

Way Problem Community Technology Futurist

Author:Hal Sparks

“I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”

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Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.”

World Mean Community Hispanic Mean The World To Me

Author:Mark Sanchez

“The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.”

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Author:Mark Sanchez

“Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.”

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Author:Rebecca Solnit

“It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.”

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Author:Romeo Santos

“Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.”

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Author:Tavis Smiley

“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

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Author:Bryn Terfel

“It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.”

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Author:Christine Taylor

“I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.”

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Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.”

Ifs Community Company Including Customers Partners Employee Multiple Stakeholder Business Partners

Author:Don Tapscott

“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”

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Author:Graham Taylor

“The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.”

People Should Soul Care Community Church Priests Pastor Bishops

Author:Pope Francis

“In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.”

Wells Might Sports Community Challenges Pride Response Stranger Representation Clans

Author:John Thorn

“I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.”

Thinking Years Community Forever Organization Shoes Starting Indian Legends Helm Tata

Author:Ratan Tata

“It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.”

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Author:Tila Tequila

“I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.”

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Author:Gabrielle Union

“Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

Writing Looks Country Culture Community Differences Class Harder Journalist Similarity

Author:Amy Waldman

“Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.”

Humans Community Morality Mediators

Author:Armstrong Williams

“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.”

Knows Firsts Home Christian Community And Love Raised Decades God Love Christian Home

Author:Chely Wright

“In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.”

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Author:George Weah

“Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.”

Helping Home Community Fire Protect Species Forests Fuel Load Watersheds Woods And Forests

Author:Greg Walden

“The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.”

Enjoy Community Chance Wonderful Week Rounds Celebration Residents Festivities

Author:Greg Walden

“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”

People Trying Eye Mother Community Son News Disability

Author:Judy Woodruff

“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”

Goal Community Business Movement Threat Rose Conservative Entrepreneurship Triumph Remove Regulation Hung Marketplace Choke Meddling Epa

Author:Thomas Frank

“We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.”

Ifs Used Black Community Cold Caught Black Community Pneumonia

Author:Gwen Ifill

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

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Author:Timothy Simons

“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.”

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Author:Sheryl Crow

“L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.”

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Author:Sheryl Crow

“It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.”

America Community Perfect Feet Nashville Places To Live

Author:Nicole Kidman

“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."”

“As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.”

“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”

“We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.”

Nature Community Protect Sake Infrastructure Our Community Protect Nature

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.”

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Author:John Walford

“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”

“What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.”

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Author:Juan Somavia

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