"I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them."
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"wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it."
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
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"In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that's true, that's probably why you're getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off."
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"Look within, thou art the Buddha."
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"If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently."
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"We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world."
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"Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us."
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"He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past."
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"I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life."
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"Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically."
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"I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced."
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"Tits always look better in a pink sweater."
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"If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment."
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"Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!""
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"Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!"
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"As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like."
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"He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
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"Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on"
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"Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific."
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