- People
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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
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I live for performing live because people look at magicians on television, and they always wonder, 'Is it a camera trick?' 'Is it a stooge?' whereas, live, they know there's no set-ups; there's no stooges.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction, and reasoning - it's a bit like what 'Sherlock' does, except that's a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychics prey on the vulnerable of society. They look like they're contacting the other side, but they're not, and they're interfering with the natural grieving process that everyone has to go through.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.
- React
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020