Quotes About Perception

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.

I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts.

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

I think Netflix have a bit of a reputation for being totally hands-off, which is not quite fair. They are very active and vested, but in a really good way.

The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped crusaders have been around - by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

Changing the conversation about how Americans perceive veterans is really important. These are hardworking, dedicated, innovative people who deserve quality employment when they return home from their military service.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it.

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.

Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

Artists have different stages in their career, from George Michael via Wham! to people like Kylie. A change of perception is what's needed.