Chris Weitz Quotes
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
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I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
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I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
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The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
