Amy Sedaris Quotes

I was really able to integrate into a diverse school and learn to get along with all different types of people.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

Some of my best friends in LA are devoutly religious people. I'm completely supportive and interested in people doing their own thing. That's a motto that I try to live by, and I hope that's how other people treat me. Live and let live.

You have to take people as they are because there are no others.

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

There are still places in America that we need to nurture, to allow them to understand that there are other ways of living, and it's not wrong, just because it's not your way of living.

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

I've never really had a problem with people.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.

Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.