"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."
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"I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl."
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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
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"To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back."
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"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor."
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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"It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best."
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"Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face."
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"Morocco: Looks better in films."
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"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
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"Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes."
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"When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'"
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"Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing."
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"I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones."
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"When in sickness, look to the spine first."
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"I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'"
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"How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement."
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"Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross."
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"STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature"
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"Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open."
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