Quotes About Perspective

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

I may make you angry or make you feel sorry for me, but in the end, you appreciate my show because it's not one-dimensional.

I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you.

People ask me about the way I conduct my life. Sorry, beautiful music is conducted... Lives cannot be conducted.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

I come from a single parent family but with both parents. I always stress that because my poor dad always gets written out and I always feel sorry for him because it's like he abandoned me, which he never did.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

Seriously, how many places on this planet exist in which you get to say to your boss, 'Sorry, but I'm leaving to climb a mountain, and I won't have Wi-Fi or cell service for a week.'

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

Some people feel sorry for me, and I understand that. I really feel lucky though.

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I know people are going to be like, 'why do you have so many songs with the word 'you' in it? 'Idea Of You,' 'Into You,' 'Like You,' 'You-Who'... Well, sorry, but it just works out that way.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.