Quotes About Perspective

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

These guys make a lot of money. Of course it's hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality.

The people in Nepal don't care about alpinism; they just care about money.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I don't calculate my net worth.

Don't believe in Netanyahu.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

Eighty-two million households is what Netflix put out watched 'Bridgerton.' And I cannot hold 82 million in my head, because that doesn't fit. It's too big.