Quotes About Humanity

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

No matter what we look like or what size we are, at the end of the day we are all human.

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

A model is supposed to represent reality, and in reality, people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality, and colour.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Behind bars, everyone's an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.

And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never presents these characters for us to judge, but only to sympathize with. He has a capacity for compassion with every sketch that he makes with a person that he is not.

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.

It's a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It's not as easy as you think.

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

My skin - very Mexican, very Oaxaquenan, and very human, from the color of my land and the diversity of its colors.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

It's not the color of our skin that divides our nation; it's the condition of our hearts.

My entire life, I've had one mission to prove. It doesn't matter what your name is. It doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. All that matters is what's in your heart.

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.