I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.
Commoner: We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way.
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.
