Quotes About Perspective

There's a billion and a half Muslim experiences. All I can give you is my one weird, self-examining perspective.

I've never seen a billion dollars. I don't think anybody has.

I don't know any real billionaires.

I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

I don't believe in birth control.

I never believed in birthday parties.

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

I think that gay men in particular need to just listen to bisexual people and believe them when they say they're attracted to different genders.

I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.

I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better job, and I say to them, 'Oh really? Why don't you go try - it's not easy.'

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?

My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel like it is as bad as the black and white suggests.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

If the world misunderstands us, then I don't blame others, it's our problem.