Quotes About Perspective

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

As a kid, I wanted to do so many different things; I saw my aunt as an air hostess, and then I wanted to be an air hostess. I found it very glamorous, but when I flew for the first time in my life, and I saw how air hostesses have to slog and how they have to work with everybody going 'ting-ting' and how they have to keep on running up and down.

I think there's a misconception that all Asian-American experiences are the same. My experiences with my family and the way they wanted me to know my culture are not the same as others.

I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

I think that anytime that you can open your eyes and see all that you have and all that you've been blessed with, it's the greatest way to connect you with God, just being grateful rather than always wanting more, wanting to be different, wanting to be better.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.