Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
