- Horizon
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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
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles was in town last time I was there. I'll have lunch with George Wallace. I just look in the Weekly calendar and see who's performing, and inevitably, we all meet up late night at one of the casinos. Jesus, I sound boring.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020