Personal Quotes

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

It’s a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It’s like personal integrity.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls’ body mass – I personally think it is demeaning.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.