- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Checked Quotes
Quotes about looking closer at life.
These checked quotes follow people revisiting places, books, and habits from their past, showing how a simple check-in can reveal a lot about who we are. It's a good reminder that curiosity never really goes away.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!
- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People had J.F.K. all wrong. They thought of him as a dashing, deciding type. He was an extremely hesitant person who checked the ice in front of him all the time.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020