- Myself
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
- Graduate Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020