- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back at the span that Mr. Big lasted, we had some unbelievable times. But there were grueling times, too.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to vibrato, a lot of people look at their hands when they do it. Which is pretty much of no use. Because vibrato is one of those things you have to hear. There are some guitar things where the visual is really useful, like seeing chord shapes or scale patterns. But vibrato isn't one of those things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've asked the Department of the Interior inspector general to look into how much manpower and taxpayer money has been spent responding to ALEC-supported bills that force federal land managers to give land to states.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020