“Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.” PeopleIfsWayCountryMovingViewsIssuesSubjectsIndependenceMoving ForwardCrucialSensibleScotlandScottishReferendums Author:Keith O'Brien
“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.” PeopleNeedsShouldWritingBelieveLooksPlayCharacterWould BeAbleI BelieveSocialChallengesLinesViewsClassCrossesMalesGenderPoint Of ViewGood WritersSocial ClassChameleon Author:Marisha Pessl
“I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsProblemEarthViewsEncountersOrganisationPresentingGreenpeace Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesDifficultViewsStepsAchieveCostBlockReduction Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.” PeopleTryingMatterViewsRepublicanDemocrat Author:Mark Pryor
“I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealFacesChurchViewsIssuesModernDrivingNoiseAwfulConventionalRevivalPersecutedMulticulturalOld TimeMulticultural Society Author:Trevor Phillips
“The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!” PeopleWantPersonsHas BeensEyeCoursesSpaceViewsTakenSickExcitingCamerasTiredPhotographHearingMechanismAstronaut Author:Burt Rutan
“Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.” PeopleThinkingWantRealGuyTermViewsHarderImpressionHardestThings To DoHardest ThingDo The BestPresentingCaricaturesHardest Thing To Do Author:Stephen Root
“I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.” PeopleViewsPurePoint Of View Author:Sun Ra
“I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.” PeopleThinkingCareViewsMountainI CareMountain Top Author:Julian Lennon
“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.” PeopleNeedsArtBookSelfMightChoicesWinningEnergySocialEasyViewsMediaSocial MediaSelf WorthLikesFollowersVenture Author:Neil Strauss
“I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.” PeopleThinkingWayChristianViewsIssuesOughtShapesApologizingArenaShrinksWorldviewWorld ViewChristian Worldview Author:John Thune
“I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.” PeopleCountryPerfectViewsCostBenefitsPoint Of ViewMake SenseBent Author:George Voinovich
“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.” PeoplePlayCharacterDesireInterestingViewsRaceIssuesRight NowTheaterFilledVery InterestingPersonal Views Author:Kerry Washington