Quotes About Support

One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.

If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.

One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.

There are so many incredible causes, no one better than the other. There are lots of organizations that need our help and lots of ways we need to help one another.

I support most charitable organizations.

I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.

I'm grateful for all the teams that I've played for, the fans, the organizations, the front offices, the list goes on and on.

One of the great things about The New York Women's Foundation is we raise money and give it in grants to small community-based organizations focused on helping women help themselves - around domestic violence, economic security, education, and sexual rights.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Luckily, I have my husband, who is Mr. Organized. Because I don't have that part of Martha Stewart in my body.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

Fans are going to give you crap no matter what sexual orientation you are.

I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when you get big. If you want to add, add. But don't get rid of your original team.

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and congratulate him for making it back. It seemed like nobody cared about what I was dealing with.

Orlando is a great city to raise a family because they have great schools and there are a lot of great people around here that I have met.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.

I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.

I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.