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  • Harold Pinter One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Henry Miller One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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  • Calvin Coolidge Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Martin Amis People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Ayn Rand People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Calvin Klein People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Beau Willimon People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bobby Hatfield Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Iain Banks Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
    (2010)
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Bret Harte Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach — fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Ben Carson So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Brooke Burke So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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