Quotes About Perspective

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

I don't have a need for speed. I'm not that guy.

I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.

When I started doing stand-up again, a lot of it was coming from an angrier place, and I quickly learned that doesn't spell a good time in a comedy club.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

I am happy that people are spending time on creating jokes on me.

I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It's easy to forget them.

I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from mine.

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.