Quotes About Perspective

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

I don't want to do just a liberal show.

All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

I keep reading between the lies.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

People think sport is life and death - it's not.

Playing for your country may seem like a massive thing, but you can build it into something it's not and put yourself under pressure from what the media say, but at the end of the day it's not life and death.

Every day, the approach to life changes. And that's what music is all about to me.

When I read books, my life changes.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Everyone's life experience is different.

I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

I have never run for office and I don't have political experience. But I do have life experiences.

Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.

Not everybody's life is a movie.

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.