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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to just change how people look at music and artists.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
- No Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020