Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

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

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.

I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.

I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians... everyone is, like, the same.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

Some people have interpreted the title of the show - 'Love' - as ironic. For me, it's sincere. The idea that we have to agree with love is a genuine statement about love.

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.