- Country
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me there's nothing more fascinating than a roomful of young people just trying to look at the world and seeing how they can affect it as they're being affected by it.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020