- Me
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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
- Laptop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
- Social Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the emotion in the English league. You look at the TV, and you see the stadium and the fans.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020