"Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Giving Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.”

Source : John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
“I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”
“What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.”
“I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.”

Source : "Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 80" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.
“Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.”
“Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.”
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

Source : Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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