"Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them."

-- Nhat Hanh

#People Quotes #Listening Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.”

Source : "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.
“An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.”
“I've always asked myself, what does it mean to love your neighbor. Like what does that exactly mean? And it means that we have an obligation to one another in every facet of life. In every facet! It starts with being present in somebody's life. And somebody that may not look like you, may not understand you, but just going out of your way to just be there!”
“Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.”

Source : Charles Kennedy (2000). “The future of politics”
“I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!”
“Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.”
“I love my country more than anything else.”

Source : Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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