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Looking Quotes

Until the ’90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was ‘too black, too fat, too short, and too old.’ Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn’t have the looks.

– Sharon Jones

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

– Shakti Gawain

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world… looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

– Sharon Tate

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet’s impact on people’s ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we’ve become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that – as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

– Vint Cerf

When you’re constantly looking for things from other people, you’re not looking within yourself.

– Sandra Bernhard

Most people who make threats don’t follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But ‘most’ and ‘often’ aren’t what you are looking for when you’re dealing with a scary person. You want to ‘know.’ And there is no knowing.

– Susan Estrich

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

– Tom Stoppard

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That’s why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you’re not looking, you’ll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That’s narrative; that’s passing stuff down.

– Shane Carruth

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

– Will Cotton

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

– Serj Tankian

The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.

– Theresa Rebeck

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

– Tim Russert

The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent a year every year for five years… I don’t know if people realize how dramatic that is.

– William Fung

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the ’70s, we found it.

– Tom Bodett

In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

– Victor Koo

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, ‘I want to do that. I want to make movies.’

– Tate Donovan

John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about ‘Southland.’ They were looking to create characters that were believable in the environment of the LAPD – multi-dimensional, layered characters with real flaws; good-hearted cops mixed with the perfect amount of heroism and irony.

– Shawn Hatosy

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

– Stephen LaBerge

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I’d just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

– Wavy Gravy

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

– Suzy Bogguss

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

– Trevor Phillips

I’m very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They’ve made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

– Scott Brooks

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.

– Warren Spahn

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that’s not going to get to my insurance company and I’m going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they’ve figured I’m looking at those books.

– Tim Berners-Lee

I don’t believe in politics. I’m an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

– Woody Harrelson

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

– Stuart Chase

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

– Shakti Gawain

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

– Steven Strogatz

When we’re in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we’re desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don’t know how to run very well.

– William Clay Ford, Jr.

The people in ‘July, July’ do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.

– Tim O’Brien

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