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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go to The Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. It's an old-fashioned pub, and from there, you can look out over the London skyline.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, I'm still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but I’ve got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don't kick boxes and I don't scream at other people.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020