Karl-Anthony Towns Quotes

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

I see dance as glue for a community.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

We are one people… our enemies made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affection binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

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

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men.

Something happens when two people from the same country, sharing the same heritage, meet and connect.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

Slipknot's not about who's in the band. It's a lifeblood. It's a force. It's about a connection between a bunch of people.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.