Brian Banks Quotes

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

I'm human just like everyone.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

I'm no different than you.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.