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JUDY RENO It's just a way to give something back to the community and we think it gets a good message to our c...
DAN DAVIDSON We are supportive of the efforts of the business community to drive forward toward a community colle...
DAN FRANCISCO The community has been very supportive. It's much more than what I expected.
KRISTI SCHULMEISTER I didn't serve in the military, so this is one way I can give back to the community when it's needed...
KATHY MILLER We felt that as we were becoming a larger company, we needed to really give back to our community an...
MARGARET WITTENBERG We opened here. We grew up here and the community has been nice enough to be supportive of us. And i...
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GARY F EVANS... We have to follow that project. That has to be done before the community center gets done.
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DAVID MCKENZIE We want to give every community as best a chance to come back as we can.
JOSEPH CANIZARO Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in th...
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ALAN WELDING We want to get an early understanding of the project so that it results in a school that the communi...
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DWIGHT WENDSCHLAG We really want to become an active part of the community.
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RYAN TOOHEY Wal-Mart likes to give back to the community.
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LINDA WARREN I thought it would be a neat way to give back to the community and a great way to promote the show.
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SIMI GREWAL This is a way for our kids to give back to the community and the business owners in Hillcrest.
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GLENN DICKMAN We are doing this to give back to the community and give these soldiers who gave their lives credit.
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KAREN HAYNES The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The community left us. We wanted to get back into the community.
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LES PARR I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
VENDELA KIRSEBOM I really want to thank all the people who have been supportive of me. It is so appreciated.
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ERIC WHITE We really want to expand as an RSO and help the community.
DAKOTA PAWLICKI May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's a process of building community. We have to work together to complete the project.
KAREN EDWARDS The profit is what we give back to the community, and that's what we all do this for.
DAN BARBER I've realized how easy it is to give back to the community.
LUCY SANTAULARIA I'm looking to try to give back to the community some of the things I enjoyed.
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CINDY BROWN We want to build a sense of community while the community is being built.
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KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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