Quotes About Perspective

I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

I traveled when I was super young, so my mindset was never like a typical 8-year-old.

Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.

I'm from a typical middle-class family and I grew up in a place without a theatre.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

I look at the world and I find the funny in it, because there's funny in everything. No matter how ugly it may be, there's a funny way to look at it.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter what - I believe that we're going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me everything there is to know about the business - the good, the bad, the ugly.

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.