Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
I want people raising my kid that see along the same lines of values and issues as I do.
Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.
...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors.
Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.
Abe was a good boy .... His mind and mine, what little I had, seemed to run together ... in the same channel.
She had a great early influence on Lincoln.
Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.