Josh Brolin Quotes

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.

But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.