Edmund Burke Quotes

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.

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

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

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

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.

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 guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

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.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

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

When I walk around my neighborhood, the grocery store, or the farmers market, I don't see Democrats or Republicans, Progressives or Conservatives. I see my brothers and sisters - living, breathing human beings with diverse and complicated stories, views, and desires that can't be packaged neatly in a box.

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.