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"We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level."
"Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves."
"If ever asked to look at yourself, don't."
"When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good."
"I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on."
"You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track."
"Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising."
"How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes."
"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."
"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."
"Too bad you can't quote the look on my face."
"Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'"
"An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way."
"A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle."
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
"If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people."
"As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them."
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
"I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train."
"Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying"
