"Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else."

-- Deena Metzger

#Attitude Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I find thatâ€™s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody elseâ€™s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor youâ€™re able to step into that characterâ€™s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someoneâ€™s life, it changes you.”
“People are just so stupid.”
“Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.”
“Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.”
“I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV.”
“There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.”

Source : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.
“It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.”
“Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.”

Source : Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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