"The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way."
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"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look."
"If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!"
"Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."
"I look in the mirror, my only opponent"
"If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years."
"I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground."
"God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else."
"Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is."
"Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow."
"Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you."
"Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences."
"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels."
"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."
"As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content."
"It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that. 'Hey lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me!'"
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet."
"One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people."
"The world looks at what you have, while God sees who you have. The world's system is based on what you have done, while God looks at what Jesus has done on the cross for you."