Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they’re wrong. – Harry Triguboff
I think one of my first jokes – in the black community, there’s people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, ‘You so black, you purple.’ ‘You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.’ – Hannibal Buress
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. – Henri Nouwen
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
If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they’re natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here. – Grover Norquist
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community. – Howard Schultz
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district. – Grimes
The key thing about force protection is… if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you’re putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need. – H. R. McMaster
The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid. – Ismail Haniyeh
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices. – James Surowiecki
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state. – Jeb Bush
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. – Jimmy Wales
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community. – Jay-Z
We don’t see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it’s a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. – John R. Allen
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. – Jacques Delors
I am very, very hopeful about the American South – I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called ‘the beloved community.’ – John Lewis
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. – Jennifer Granholm
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a ‘do it ourselves’ vs. ‘what are you doing for us’ debate. For the black community, that’s a debate that’s been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches. – John Ridley
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. – John Charles Polanyi
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country. – J. B. Pritzker
Without community events like NewFest, I don’t think we’d have a queer cinema in America. – Ira Sachs
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. – Jimmy Wales
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it’s hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. – Joel Coen
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one’s self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community. – James Woods
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’ – Joe Biden
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips. – Jane Byrne
‘Hispanic’ was the term adopted by the government – by the Nixon government in particular – and that made the community feel it was being branded. – Ilan Stavans
Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won’t survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit. – Jochen Zeitz
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective. – Ian Goldin