Quotes About Perspective

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.

Everyone's personal style evolves based on upbringing, exposure, influences, personality, etc. Style is subjective.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.

I think that's the greatest gift she gave us, this normal upbringing without her fame hanging over our heads. It actually prepared us for the world.

I did experience a different type of upbringing having two completely different cultures.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

To call doing films upgrade from TV wouldn't be right because TV is huge too.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

We don't ever want to be in a position that we're fighting uphill. We don't want to looking up at China.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.

For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the least sense to me. However, in reality, I fell in love at 45 and I am absolutely certain that my now husband is the only man in the world for me, a truth I find both ridiculous and uplifting.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

It's bizarre how the most powerful, moving things in the world, there's no money. But that's going to be the most uplifting thing in anyone's life. There's not going to be a paycheck.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all to be diverse. When it's diverse, you're going to have a completely different dynamic. Everybody feels othered. Nobody feels like they've got the upper hand.