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Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears. ”
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. ”
I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ”
I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay. ”
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. ”
Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us. ”
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ”
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ”
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? ”