Looks Quotes - Page 31

• I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

  Curtis Hanson

  Writing, Careers, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I could have a one-night stand, and I'm the kind of girl who looks over in the morning and is like, Do you really have to be here? I don't need to cuddle and do all that stuff because I know what it is and I don't try to make it more. I feel like a lot of women try to make it into more, so they don't feel so bad about just wanting to have sex.

  Jessica Alba

  Girl, Morning, Sex

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, "No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry."

  Margot Robbie

  Sorry, Shoes, Feet

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with ELLE, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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• One of the easiest ways to solve your problems is to look at how others have solved a similar problem. So, in this regard, we are using the same thinking of others.

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Way, Problem

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I try to be good to myself. Look, we're human and people have differences.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Differences, People, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

  Tommy Chong

  Optimistic, Eye, Body

  The Beyond Chronic Interview, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of things are done that couldn't be done before. On the other hand a lot of the effect of social media is to set up extremely superficial contacts amongst people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Incentives, Resistance, Process

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Needs, Break

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Donald Trump business connections, which are really horrifying. I mean, they make Hillary Clinton look like small change when it comes to influence peddlin and really engaging the most nefarious forces around the world.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Small Changes, Connections

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.

  Jill Stein

  Real, War, Moving

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Growing Up, World, Easy

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Confusion, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Important, Half

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like something.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Brother, Stars, Growing Up

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Creating, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Giving, Able, Tools

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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