Danielle Schneider Quotes

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

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

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

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

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.