(Clinton) sat on a log in the center of a community of 60,000 displaced Haitians for hours, asking questions…What did they need? How could he help?... He focused on, and learned about those in need, and he showed them respect, and acknowledged their dignity… As UN Special Envoy to Haiti, he shepherded more than six billion dollars in disbursements and debt-forgiveness following the earthquake. Haiti and J/P HRO are grateful for his commitment.

Sean Penn

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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't... by Sean Penn

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

filmmaker love believe

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of co... by Sean Penn

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

innocence magic kind

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved. by Sean Penn

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

shame want

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with tha... by Sean Penn

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

bottom lines wife

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

response kind heart

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

rights trying mean

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. by Sean Penn

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

favorites-things my-favorite simple

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

gay eye thinking

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's... by Sean Penn

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

romantic-love levels mean

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

crafts self way

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

being-ignored individuality inspiration

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

medicine magic thinking

I think we all have light and dark inside us. by Sean Penn

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

light dark thinking

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

origin-of-life offers speak

When everything gets answered, it's fake. by Sean Penn

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

fake

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

testing-yourself comfort country

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

opportunity water children

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter. by Sean Penn

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

vote ifs matter

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

hunger people art

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the... by Sean Penn

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

disgusting peers sarcastic