Seeing Quotes - Page 25

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Achievement

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.108

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• I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

  Rashida Jones

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

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• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Dream, Ucla, Games

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• I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Friday, Fun, Night

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• You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  R. Kelly

  People, Clubs, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

  Craig Kilborn

  Bills, Nostalgic, Clinton

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• Seeing is not always believing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Believe, Vision

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• After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

  Stephen King

  New York, Echoes, Cities

  "Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

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• When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• One eye sees, the other feels.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Eye

  Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

  Art, History, Painting

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• I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

  Heidi Klum

  Basketball, Fun, Thinking

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• I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

  Jeff Koons

  People, Appreciate, Different

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• Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Blessing, Needs

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• There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Dies

  "Fictional character: Gen. George Broulard". "Paths of Glory", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

  Tony Kushner

  Mother, Country, Thinking

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• I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Checks, Should

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• I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Who I Am, Giving

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• Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

  Anne Lamott

  Dresses, Attention, Print

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.14, Anchor

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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

  Philip Larkin

  Mind, China, If I Could

  Philip Larkin (1989). “Philip Larkin: the man and his work”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

  Queen Latifah

  Backyards, World, Littles

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• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Giving, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  Damian Lewis

  Men, People, Assuming

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