Ben Feldman Quotes

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

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

There's so much more to people than their differences.

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

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.

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

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

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.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

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