Quotes About Perception

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

I want to maintain the chocolate boy image that I have.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Not taking those few moments in the morning to decide what you're saying to people by how you're choosing to dress is a lost opportunity.

I don't look like a chorus girl.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

When I was asked to play the lead character Mohini in Avunu' I asked Ravi Babu why he chose me. He said he wanted someone who can act well. I felt nice.

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

You know how you see Chris Brown and all these guys playing basketball? Chris Brown is actually not bad so I feel like it's okay that some of these basketball players are trying to rap.

The reason people don't take Christianity very seriously anymore is because all people do is put it on their business cards and blab to get on television.

All the drama you see about Christianity or the Catholic religion? People are seeing through that, and there are really authentic people out there with faith.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.