Quotes About Perspective

If immigration is simply seen as a numbers game, nobody will ever win that debate. The question should be: what is it we want to achieve? What do we expect of those who are arriving? What is the basic deal?

I've said numerous times how proud I am to be Scottish and how proud I have been to compete for Britain, too, and I don't think these two things necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

When you spend time with people who have served our country in the military or doctors and nurses, it is embarrassing when you see what footballers earn.

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

I get intimidated by famous people. When I'm around them and they look at me like I belong, I'm like, 'Are you nuts? You're freakin' famous!' Whether it's Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it's humbling to be in a room with these folks.

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.