We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.
I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.
Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
This flag does not belong to the right wing of the Republican party. It belongs to all of us.
pointing to an American flag
Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.
Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!
The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers, I get welcomed pretty easily.
We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.
Blood always aids blood, my friend.
