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  • Gore Vidal A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Brigitte Bardot A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James John Walker A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
    James John Walker
    American politician (1881 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Cockburn A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
    The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gail Godwin Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bill Veeck After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Helen Rowland After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Albert Einstein All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Gardell And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Dave Barry And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Alan Alda Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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