"You watch people and study them the way an alien would."
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"Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks."
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"He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?"
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"I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?"
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"If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you."
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"It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind."
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"Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me."
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"Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch."
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"I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really."
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"I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise."
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"You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic."
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"People watch what you do more than listen to what you say."
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"The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney."
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"I love to read the way people love to watch television."
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"You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day."
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"If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical."
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"The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years."
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"Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back."
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"We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost."
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"I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated."
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