Quotes with looking-glasses

Quotes 161 till 180 of 384.

  • Bjorn Ulvaeus In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Bono In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
    Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Allen Klein In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Nauman In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Miller In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bobby Jindal India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Diana Ross Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
    Diana Ross
    American singer, songwriter and actress (1944 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Agatha Christie It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Henry Miller It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bob Harper It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Billy Mays It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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