Quotes About Perspective

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

Why do you keep calling me 'Billionaire Philip Anschutz?' My mother never called me 'Billionaire.'

I changed Philip's nappies when he was a baby and did my fair share of getting up and rocking him to sleep. Bringing up a little girl will be a different experience for me.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important. What is not important is how do you plan to live your life or the larger picture. Not that I had such philosophical intentions when I was 18, but I think there was lesser importance for money.

We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.

You have to be philosophical about life, you cant angst over it too much.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.