- Book
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
- View
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.
- Deep Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020