Quotes About Perspective

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.

I have been asked about terrorism many times, and each time I speak as clearly as I can.

A terrorist for one man could be a patriot for another.

In the West, they have no clue what Palestinian suffering is about, and the terrorist attacks give a wrong picture about the just Palestinian cause.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I competed in a test round of 'Kitchen Casino.' I feel like it's good to know what the competitors are going through.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

As a reporter, I spent a great deal of time in court. During brief breaks in testimony, I would often look at the spouse, usually the wife, of the accused. I began to wonder how listening to the details of a crime purportedly committed by your spouse would affect that person's view of her husband.

What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.

What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone and adrenaline by a woman. That's why it's little more interesting than it should be.

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.