Quotes About Connections

You really think you can buy some rope without drawing attention?" Lopen lounged back against the wall. "My cousin's never failed me." "How many cousins do you have, anyway?" Earless Jaks asked. "A man can never have enough cousins," Lopen said.

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off.)

from the moment we're born until the day we die.

These things we hold on to, they are more than just things. They prove our history, who we are, where we came from.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

But for me there are only two classes: the people I trust and the people I don't.

I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.

People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los Angeles.

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.

I rarely meet other young actors.

I made a lot of mistakes along the way, but feel incredibly lucky to be in the position I am now and to be able to play a small part in trying to support talented, aspiring young filmmakers out there through a program like 'Interpretations' who, like me, had the desire and passion, but no connections to the industry.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

I got to travel a lot and meet amazing people. That was a lot of fun.

I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

I've traveled the world, made a lot of money, met a lot of amazing people.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

Traveling is not just a pleasure, but it also gets you to meet so many people, experience new things in life and, in return, expand your horizon so much.

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.