Quotes About Attitude

If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse.

I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.

I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Most importantly, if you feel sexy, you look sexy.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

I remember when we were mixing our record and our manager was in there going, 'You guys need to sing more, so it can be on the radio.' And we were like 'What? We're never going to get played on the radio. Who cares? What are you talking about?'

This millennial generation... you guys seem so entitled.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.