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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suddenly thought, if I was going to make a go of it, I was going to have to look after myself and not keep apologising for knocking people over. That transformed my career.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020