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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
- Nov 07, 2020
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please look at the response to Windrush, and the apology, in terms of trying to put things right and, secondly, the bigger picture about how this government has been committed to trying to deal with the injustices in society, some of which matter more to people from ethnic minorities.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people go to vote still in Britain, they will look at their local representatives, but I don't think there is a sort of cult of personality politics. Obviously, they want to know who the leader is for each party, but I think there is a lot of identification with their local candidates.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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- Nov 07, 2020