Quotes About Perspective

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.

I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

I know prisons from the inside.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

My adopted parents were able to pay for me to go to a private school. So I had it better than most people.

I like the fact that Donald Trump has been in the private sector. I like that he's had to make a payroll. I like that he's had to do projects.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think that that's the biggest issue, because I am subject to much more inequality.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that's a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

I'm well aware of my privilege.

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege.