Quotes About Attitude

Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

People in Los Angeles are more used to acting silly than other people.

I like to see the silver linings in things.

I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person.

There are similarities with Angela Merkel, there are issues that separate us, and I'm showing that genuinely and authentically and won't create an artificial separation because it has something to do with character and attitude.

I wanted to keep the same general attitude we created for the show in that there are some similarities to 'The X-Files,' so some of the realistic atmosphere that we created on 'The X-Files' is the same that we've created for 'Millennium.' It's an atmosphere that helps the audience invest themselves in the characters and believe what they're doing.

When a film becomes a hit you can't take all the credit, and similarly when it doesn't do well you shouldn't worry.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.

I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

Scoring can be simply a matter of confidence. Sometimes it happens easily.

Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.

A professional does not take success or failure personally.

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.