Dan Deacon Quotes

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Shared dining fortifies us.

There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.