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"Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others."
"The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine."
"When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke."
"We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost."
"The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me."
"It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past."
"A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all."
"The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything."
"Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street."
"He thinks I look alike!"
"It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols."
"I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!"
"Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people."
"Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection."
"We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last."
"Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones."
"For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."
"Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time."
"Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters."
"Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes."
