Eyes Quotes
Eyes show up everywhere in language as a symbol for vision, awareness, perspective, and sometimes a good punchline. This collection ranges from earnest observations about seeing the world clearly to sharp, funny takes on what we choose to notice or ignore.
These quotes suit social media captions, poetry projects, personal essays, or adding a bit of flair to a presentation. Scroll through and pick your favourites.
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“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
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“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
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“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
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“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
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“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
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“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”
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“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
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“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
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“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
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“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
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“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
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“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.”
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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
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“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”
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“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”
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“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”
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“Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.”
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“Love's tongue is in his eyes.”
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
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“If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.”
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“When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”
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“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
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“People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks… I ain't finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.”
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“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
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“Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?”
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“I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.”
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“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
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“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
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“When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.”
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“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
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“I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.”
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“What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”
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“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”
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“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.”
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“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
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“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
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“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
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“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
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“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.”
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“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
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“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
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“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”
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“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.”
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“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
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“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
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“A fool is wise in his eyes.”
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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
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“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
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“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
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“I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.”
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“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.”
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“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.”
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
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“Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.”
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“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”
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“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
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“There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.”
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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
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“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
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“The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.”
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“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.”
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“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”
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“Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.”
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“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
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“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.”
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“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
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“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”
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“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.”
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“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”
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“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
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“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”
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“When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.”
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“I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.”
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“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.”
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“So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.”
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“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
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“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
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“I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.”
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“I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.”
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“The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers.”
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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
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“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
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“You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.”
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“My dream girl… well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!”
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“To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.”
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
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“There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.”
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“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”
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“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
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“I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.”
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
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“I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.”
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“I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.”
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“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.”
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“My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes.”
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“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
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“You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.”
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“Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.”
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“Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.”
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“When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.”
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“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”
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“What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.”
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“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”
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“My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then… never judge.”
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“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”
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“When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.”
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“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.”
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“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
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“The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.”
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“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.”
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“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
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“The underprivileged are the only privileged ones in the eyes of Allah.”
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“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
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“My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.”
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“I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.”
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“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
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“Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.”
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“When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.”
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“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
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“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!”
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“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
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“Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.”
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“I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.”
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“I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.”
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“We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.”
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“Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly in accordance with justice and humanity, some time or other, if remembered at all, I should stand vindicated in the eyes of my countrymen.”
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“One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.”
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“Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.”
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“That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.”
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“I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.”
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“Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.”
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“And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.”
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“As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.”
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“You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.”
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“Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.”
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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.”
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“Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.”
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“Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!”
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“If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.”
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“This past year has been something else… it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.”
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“Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.”
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“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
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“I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.”
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“I'm a sucker for a woman with beautiful eyes.”
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“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
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“The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.”
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“My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.”
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“One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.”
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“The lynx has perfect eyes.”
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“I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.”
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“My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!”
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“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
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“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”
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“In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.”
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“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.”
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“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.”
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“The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.”
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“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”
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“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
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“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”
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“My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.”
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“What takes Hollywood weeks and months to film takes professional wrestlers and the companies behind them literally minutes to put together. A spontaneous explosion of emotion unleashed before your very eyes.”
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“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
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“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
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“I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.”
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“I have eyes like those of a dead pig.”
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“When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.”
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“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
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“I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.”
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“I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.”
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“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”
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“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
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“Anyone who's looked into a newborn's innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.”
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“I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.”
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“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.”
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“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”
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“I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.”
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“I want to see myself as a student. Keep learning, keep improving, keep your eyes and ears open.”
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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
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“What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.”
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“Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.”
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“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
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“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
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“Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.”
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“My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.”
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“The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.”
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“Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.”
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“Look at life with the eyes of a child.”
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“Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.”
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“When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”
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“The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.”
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“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
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“It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.”
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“On a bad day, I'll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world's population's eyes.”
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“A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.”
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“If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.”
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“Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!”
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“Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.”
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“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
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“Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.”
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“In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.”
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“Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.”
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“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
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“Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.”
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“Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.”
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“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”
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“A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.”
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“I prefer to see with closed eyes.”
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“Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.”
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“One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.”
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“After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.”
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“A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.”
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“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
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“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
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“I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!”
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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”
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“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”
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“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.”
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“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”
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“I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won't wander, and it doesn't mean I won't flirt!”
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“Listen with your eyes for feelings.”
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“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.”
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“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.”
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“If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.”
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“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.”
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“In the eyes of the world, Malaysia has become a pariah state, a state where anyone can be hauled up and questioned by the police, detained, and charged through abusing laws of the country.”
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“Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.”
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“I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.”
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“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'”
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“But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.”
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“She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.”
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“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.”
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“Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.”
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“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”
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“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”
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“The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.”
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“I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.”
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“At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.”
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“Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!”
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“So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.”
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“You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.”
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“The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.”
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“I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.”
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“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.”
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“I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.”
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“When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.”
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“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.”
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“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.”
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
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“I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.”
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“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
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“Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last… to the North Pole.”
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“My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small… my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.”
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“Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.”
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“Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.”
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“If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.”
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“When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.”
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“To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.”
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“I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.”
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“It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.”
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“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”
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“Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.”
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“My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.”
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“I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.”
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“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
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“Never look directly into the camera, stare off. Nobody wants to see those eyes, they want to see the bod.”
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“You can tell everything from the eyes.”
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“I'm homosexual… How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.”
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“There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.”
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“From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.”
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“I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.”
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“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
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“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.”
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“My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.”
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“Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.”
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“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
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“During the song 'Chai Mein Chini' Sridevi had to keep her Chinese make-up on for hours. It was very painful since her eyes had been narrowed and there were pins all over her head, but she kept the make-up on without any complaint.”
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“George Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.”
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“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”
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“The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”
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“I was in a bar in Rio and a cow walked in, I looked into its eyes, and I saw such tranquillidad, serenity. Then I started seeing cows everywhere. I realise why the Indians worship them.”
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“Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.”
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“The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.”
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“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”
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“I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.”
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“I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.”
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“Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'”
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“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
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“The first thing I do after I wake up is a morning meditation. It's just as I awake and before I open my eyes. It's where I'm feeding my gratitude and the love in my heart and opening my heart. A good morning meditation is key. It lasts about 10 to 15 minutes. Then I get out of bed.”
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“I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.”
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“I have never had a facial in my life. I use a facewash, a sunblock, and then I am set, with some kohl pencil around my eyes.”
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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
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“There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.”
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“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.”
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“But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.”
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“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water… If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.”
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“Use colors on eyes that contrast with the iris to make eyes appear more vibrant.”
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“What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.”
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“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.”
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“I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.”
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“My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.”
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“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
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“Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.”
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“There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to… you just want to… I dunno, um… thump them.”
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“Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.”
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“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.”
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“Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.”
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“I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music.”
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“When I'm asked to define football, I always talk about emotions, the heart, love. It's something you feel deep down inside when you enter a stadium, raise your eyes, and look at the stands, the fans coming in.”
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“It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.”
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“Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.”
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“Hmm, I know I get more feminine when I'm mad, like I'll roll my neck, like I'm rolling my eyes.”
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“I'm big when it comes to respect. But it's a two-way street, in my eyes.”
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“The homeless often feel invisible, allowed to plummet through widening holes in the social safety net, then hidden in doorways from which people avert their eyes.”
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“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.”
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“My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.”
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“The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.”
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“Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.”
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“They say eyes clear with age.”
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“My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.”
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“As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
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“Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.”
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“Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.”
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“Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.”
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“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”
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“Mom was a school teacher, and she had to be at work at 7:30 every morning. So Dad was in charge of us three kids around the breakfast table. He always made it creative: he did the bananas with the smiley face and the eyes with peanut butter on top, made us drink grapefruit every morning even though we had to do it holding our noses.”
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“Who can blind lover's eyes?”
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“It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.”
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“It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.”
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“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”
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“I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.”
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“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.”
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“I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.”
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“If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.”
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“All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
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“Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.”
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“We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.”
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“I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.”
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“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.”
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“In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.”
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“My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.”
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“If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.”
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“I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.”
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“It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.”
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“Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.”
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“I'm easy to imitate. All you need are the soft-boiled egg eyes and the bedroom voice.”
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“That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.”
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“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
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“Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.”
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“I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.”
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“Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.”
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“It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.”
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“I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.”
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“He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.”
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“By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.”
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“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”
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“There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was.”
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“Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”
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“Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?”
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“I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.”
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“It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.”
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“My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.”
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“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
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“My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much… but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.”
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“We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.”
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“The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.”
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“God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.”
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“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”
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“We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.”
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“I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?”
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“The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.”
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“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
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“I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.”
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“The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
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“Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.”
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“True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.”
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“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.”
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“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”
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“It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
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“'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.”
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“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”
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“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”
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“Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.”
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“People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.”
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“If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.”
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“If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.”
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“Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.”
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“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
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“It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.”
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“Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.”
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“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.”
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“I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.”
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“I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.”
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“I don't portray a terrorist. The American fans label me a terrorist. It doesn't matter what I claim to be: in their eyes, I am whatever they say I am despite the fact that I'm not committing any 'acts of terror.' I ask you, how am I portraying a terrorist? Because I look like a Muslim?”
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“She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.”
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“British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.”
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“The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.”
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“Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.”
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“Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.”
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“There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.”
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“My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'”
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“Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.”
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“A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.”
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“I wear decent shades, but if I lose them, I'll go right to the store and get cheap ones because my eyes are that sensitive.”
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“I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.”
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“Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.”
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“I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.”
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“I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.”
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“I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.”
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“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
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“I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.”
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“Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
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“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.”
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“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
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“When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you… I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.”
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“He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.”
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“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”
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“Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.”
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“I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.”
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“I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.”
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“I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.”
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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
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“I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.”
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“An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.”
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“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.”
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“All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.”
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“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
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“The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.”
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“Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.”
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“The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.”
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“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.”
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“I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!”
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“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”
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“I have been working with UNICEF Peru a lot. I am aiming to educate children, mostly because once adults reach adulthood, your views are shaped. With children, you can really teach them, you can open their eyes to what is really going on. The only way we can open their eyes and free them is by educating them.”
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“Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.”
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“I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.”
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“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
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“If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.”
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“When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
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“Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!”
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“By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.”
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“Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.”
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“My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.”
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“I'm really simple. I'm just like, wash your face, keep it hydrated, moisturize every night, whether it's a cream or serum or overnight thing. My mother's trick - who looks amazing and has no wrinkles under her eyes - is to wear eye cream every night.”
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“The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.”
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“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
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“Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.”
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“Poets are Damned… but See with the Eyes of Angels.”
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“I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.”
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“I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.”
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“My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.”
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“By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.”
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“I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.”
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“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
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“After I see in OKC, I see this is how NBA teams are. You know how you're like in a dream and you have a superpower and just don't want to open your eyes and end the dream? Oklahoma City's been like that to me.”
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“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.”
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“Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.”
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“We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.”
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“David Bowie is my biggest inspiration. Pretty much the only thing that stayed the same with Bowie was his eyes. Everything else constantly changed, from his sexuality to his songs.”
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“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”
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“In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.”
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“I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.”
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“Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.”
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“We watched a lot of Matt Ryan in college. We watched a lot of his play-fakes, a lot of his play-action, rolling out, getting his eyes snapped around. We were big on Drew Brees and Tom Brady, their mechanics. We looked at a lot of their stuff as well.”
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“Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.”
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“When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.”
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“I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with… we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.”
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“Sometimes I feel I'm being animated, but it comes off differently. Unfortunately, I was cursed with these sleepy eyes.”
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“I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.”
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“If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.”
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“People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.”
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“It is not that the Church hasn't been trained in evangelism; it is not a lack of instruction or information. The fact is, if you don't love people through the eyes of Christ, the world will never be changed.”
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“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”
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“I don't want to look at everything from the outside. I want to be in it. I want to see it all from my eyes.”
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“We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.”
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“The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.”
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“I always feel with a vintage shop they've picked the best bits to show you whereas with charity shops you can find a real gem. My mum is amazing at it, she has hawk eyes, so I go with her and follow her lead!”
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“Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.”
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“My body is so important to me… my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.”
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“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.”
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“I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.”
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“Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.”
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“People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it's up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.”
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“I never look at the goalkeeper's eyes.”
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“I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.”
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“Honor wears different coats to different eyes.”
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“Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.”
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“What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.”
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“I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.”
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“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.”
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“For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.”
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“I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.”
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“But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.”
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“No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.”
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“All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'”
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“You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.”
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“Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.”
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“Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under my eyes. Then I started wearing more baggy stuff.”
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“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”
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“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”
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“I watched the 'Food, Inc.' documentary and was like, 'This has opened my eyes to the meat industry - maybe I should go vegetarian.' And my friend told me, 'Sadie, you're not gonna last a week.' But I'm very competitive.”
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“One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can't look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people's attention for more than 15 minutes.”
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“Curl the lashes, concealer under the eyes, blush, ChapStick, and highlight in the inner corner of the eye.”
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“Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!”
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“I think that anytime that you can open your eyes and see all that you have and all that you've been blessed with, it's the greatest way to connect you with God, just being grateful rather than always wanting more, wanting to be different, wanting to be better.”
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“In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.”
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“I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.”
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“People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.”
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“I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.”
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“I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.”
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“You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.”
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“The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them with levity and self-deprecation first.”
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“It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.”
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“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”
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“When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.”
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“As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.”
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“God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes… Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.”
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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
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“Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.”
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“When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.”
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“The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.”
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“But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes… And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.”
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“I don't mind my eyebrows. They add… something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.”
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“The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.”
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“The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn't expect it to look so detailed.”
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“Oh yea, I was a conservative. I was probably hard-line, preoccupied with how much money I would make and how far I would go. But I began seeing a lady who directs a homeless clinic in Fargo. One of our first get-togethers was to a Salvation Army dinner, where I met some jobless Vietnam veterans. It started my transition, opened my eyes.”
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“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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“What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.”
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“I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.”
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“The eyes have one language everywhere.”
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“I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.”
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“From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.”
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“Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.”
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“So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.”
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“I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.”
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“When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.”
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“The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.”
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“I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.”
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“Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”
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“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
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“It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.”
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“My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!'”
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“He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.”
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“Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.”
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“Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.”
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“I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.”
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“Always highlight the eyes with kajal. Brush your hair neatly and never step out of home without a touch of lipstick.”
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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”
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“I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.”
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“The first thing I do in the morning is to get some sunlight in my eyes, it is good for circadian rhythm.”
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“Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”
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“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.”
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“There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.”
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“Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.”
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“It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.”
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“I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.”
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“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
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“One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.”
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“Some people don't have hands, some don't have eyes - these people's struggle in life is real. We have been blessed with everything - a pair of eyes, ears, hands. What do we have to worry about? About having one more foot added to our height? Just because I am not six feet, won't I be respected?”
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“I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside!”
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“Always trust the process. I'm a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you're moving towards it, you will always get there.”
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“In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.”
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“I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.”
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“There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.”
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“Physically? If you've got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginning. As far as personality, I'm attracted to really shy girls. Someone who knows who they are and is very genuine. That is just so sexy to me.”
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“I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.”
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“Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.”
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“From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.”
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“Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.”
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“I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.”
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“Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.”
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“In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.”
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“The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.”
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“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”
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“Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.”
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“I don't get much sleep, so I have really bad bags under my eyes.”
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“A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”
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“At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.”
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“If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.”
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“I went to Zanzibar on holiday and there was a lot there about civil rights and there was a museum, where there are old slave chambers. It was horrible to go to and they've still got the chains there. It opens your eyes a lot.”
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“I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people's eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.”
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“Mission makes athlete-specific products. I always use their sunscreen - it's an anti-sting formula, which is huge for me because it doesn't burn my eyes when I'm snowboarding in warmer temperatures.”
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“Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.”
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“When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.”
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“If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.”
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“With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.”
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“Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.”
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“I've had bags under my eyes my whole life; it's just genetics. But if it's a slower day and I have more time to do my routine, I'll put eye cream on.”
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“I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.”
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“I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.”
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“Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have the exact same eyes.”
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“What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.”
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“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
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“Christianity asserts that God made himself human. Those are two different categories - two different levels of worthiness. God is one category, and human is another. That's a downgrade. After that jump, there are no more categories - no more downgrades. There are no human levels of worthiness. There is no hierarchy in God's eyes.”
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“What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.”
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“Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.”
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“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”
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“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
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“We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.”
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“No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.”
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“I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.”
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“In my eyes, I just can't be beaten.”
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“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.”
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“I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.”
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“So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.”
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“That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.”
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“I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.”
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“I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.”
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“There will always be big companies making big movies. But making film and distribution is changing in front of our eyes. I'm not sure what the future holds for this industry.”
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“I get really puffy eyes, so I'm all about a good puffy-eye mask.”
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“Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.”
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“Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.”
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“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.”
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“I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.”
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“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.”
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“I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.”
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“I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.”
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“So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.”
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“Women often seem to have a fear of being 'found out'. Of thinking they've pulled the wool over their boss's eyes to get a job they don't deserve. I thought like that for years - but I'm massively over it now.”
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“Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.”
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“The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.”
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“I love working with an actress that you can just look at them and be able to react with your eyes and not have to do much else.”
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“Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.”
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“I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.”
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“I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.”
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“I love Charles Bronson. He didn't have a lot of range, and he wasn't a great actor, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.”
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“She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.”
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“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
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“I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.”
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“There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and your first-timer.”
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“On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.”
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“Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.”
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“I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.”
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“The Barcelona players have reached an amazing mutual understanding that they can play with their eyes closed.”
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“The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.”
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“The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.”
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“I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.”
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“What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me… it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like… it's like church, man.”
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“Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.”
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“My blue eyes are my best feature.”
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“If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.”
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“Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.”
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“In my eyes, Joe Gibbs could do no wrong.”
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“Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.”
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“Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.”
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“If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.”
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“For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.”
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“In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.”
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“If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.”
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“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
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“I certainly don't feel like I have the perfect body type… It's through your own eyes. And for every female, you're going to see flaws in that; you're going to see flaws regardless. So for me, it's just important to have that confidence and self-esteem no matter what body type you have.”
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“I don't dislike any of my features - they're what make me me, and I'm confident in who I am. I see my mum in my lips and I've got my dad's eyes.”
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“I'm not quite used to being seen through the eyes of fans yet. Being met with squeals and screams - I haven't gotten used to that.”
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“There has been speculation through the years that Elvis has his eyes done or some other mystery procedure, but that mini facelift was the extent of his plastic surgery.”
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“My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion.”
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“When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.”
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“If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.”
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“Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.”
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“Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.”
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“When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.”
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“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.”
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“I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt.”
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“All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.”
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“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.”
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“I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?”
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“We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.”
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“I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.”
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“Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.”
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“I always had that joy of the game in my eyes everywhere I played, because it was the best thing, but Brescia probably had less pressure. Maybe people might perceive more enjoyment because the pressure was different, but it was the same. I enjoyed the pressure, no problem!”
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“The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.”
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“I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.”
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“In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The people that pulled me off that ground, who pulled me out. Those are my heroes. The police. The paramedics. Those are the true heroes.”
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“F2 cars have downforce; they're quick. But it's difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that's going on once you're in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.”
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“I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.”
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“Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.”
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“When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.”
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“If you look at Kirsten Dunst's performance in 'Melancholia,' which I think is absolutely wonderful - it's not even in the text, because she doesn't say much; it's all in her eyes. She doesn't have to explain what she's feeling. You just feel it.”
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“When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.”
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“During Partition, my parents, my brother and sisters were killed before my eyes.”
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“When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.”
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“The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.”
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“Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.”
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“The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.”
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“The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.”
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“While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.”
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“A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.”
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“I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.”
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“When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.”
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“The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!”
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“Relationships with people in general, in no matter what capacity, are something that's very emotional. They mean a lot to you. I think having eyes on that in a critical way can be really tough.”
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“If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.”
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“In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.”
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“I still recall the first time I laid eyes on Ric. Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch were wrestling, at the time, in Minnesota, and they took a liking to this kid who'd been hanging around the matches. That kid was Ric Flair, and they brought him to my ranch in Amarillo, Texas.”
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“Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.”
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“My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.”
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“The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.”
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“It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.”
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“A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”
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“In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.”
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“To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open… That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.”
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“When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.”
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“The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.”
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“Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.”
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“Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”
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“I like to reactivate my body after a long journey by getting the sun in my eyes.”
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“I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.”
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“At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.”
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“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.”
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“In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.”
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“When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical.”
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“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”
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“I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.”
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“Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
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“Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.”
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“I remember the first time seeing myself on TV, when my family was watching the documentary 'Eyes on the Prize' for the first time. There were pictures of people going up the school stairs, and Mom said, 'Oh, that's you!' I said, 'I can't believe this. This is important.'”
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“I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.”
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“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”
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“The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.”
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“As the Bachelor, all eyes are on you. It's certainly nerve-racking. The process was as hard as I thought it would be - a lot of highs and lows.”
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“I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.”
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“The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'”
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“The nurses were all angels in my eyes.”
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“I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.”
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“The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.”
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“Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes - dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.”
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“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”
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“Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.”
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“When I look in my father's eyes, man, I know that I made him proud. As a son, with a father that loves him and believes in him so much, that's the world. It really is.”
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“When I see sentimental scenes, I get emotional and tears start flowing from my eyes.”
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“He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.”
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“I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.”
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“My mom was like, 'What did I do as a mom for you to want to become a wrestler?' They just didn't understand, and it's really hard to explain what made me love wrestling so much. There's something about it that made me fall in love, and ever since I laid my eyes on it, I knew I wanted to be a professional wrestler in the WWE.”
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“There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.”
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“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
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“I go to work the minute I open my eyes.”
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“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
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“Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.”
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“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”
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“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
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“Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.”
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“She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.”
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“The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.”
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“Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.”
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“Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.”
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“If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.”
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“I think we're glazing eyes all across America.”
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“I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.”
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“Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.”
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“For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.”
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“I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
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“Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.”
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“Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.”
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“An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.”
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“The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.”
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“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
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“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
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“I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.”
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“The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.”
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“All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.”
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“Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!”
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“In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.”
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“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.”
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“Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.”
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“It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.”
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“The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
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“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.”
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“It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.”
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“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”
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“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
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“The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
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“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”
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“This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.”
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“I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.”
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“Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.”
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“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.”
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“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”
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“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?”
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“Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.”
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“The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.”
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“Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.”
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“There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”
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“A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.”
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“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.”
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“Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.”
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“In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.”
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“I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
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“I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.”
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“You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.”
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“I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it… they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.”
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“There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.”
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“Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.”
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“I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.”
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“His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!”
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“I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.”
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“Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.”
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“I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.”
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“When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.”
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“When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!”
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“Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.”
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“I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.”
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“The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.”
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“The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.”
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“My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.”
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“You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.”
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“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?”
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“It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.”
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“Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.”
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“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”
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“So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.”
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“There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!”
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“You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.”
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“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”
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“I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.”
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“War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.”
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“Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.”
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“When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.”
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“Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.”
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“The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.”
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“Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.”
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“While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.”
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“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”
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“What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.”
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“Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.”
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“If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.”
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“Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.”
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“My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.”
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“My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.”
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“I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.”
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“Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!”
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“I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.”
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“I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.”
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“The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.”
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“In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.”
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“Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.”
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“I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.”
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“I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!”
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“The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.”
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“I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.”
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“Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.”
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“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.”
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“These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.”
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“The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.”
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“More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.”
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“I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.”
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“We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.”
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“Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.”
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“It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.”
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“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”
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“When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.”
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“I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.”
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“And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.”
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“He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.”
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“Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.”
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“Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.”
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“When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities… when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.”
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“That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about… 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.”
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“Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.”
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“Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.”
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“He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.”
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“Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.”
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“Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.”
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“There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.”
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“I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.”
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“Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.”
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“When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.”
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“The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.”
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“When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.”
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“My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.”
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“But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.”
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“Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.”
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“I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.”
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“I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.”
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“In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.”
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“I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.”
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“Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.”
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“No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.”
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“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”
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“But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.”
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“When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.”
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“We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.”
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“Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.”
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“I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.”
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“I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.”
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“You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.”
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“For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.”
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“It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.”
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“Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.”
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“There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch… that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.”
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“As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.”
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“Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.”
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“And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!”
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“It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.”
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“Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.”
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“Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.”
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“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.”
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“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”
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“I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.”
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“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”
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“They're just big in the eyes of the American public.”
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“Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.”
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“Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.”
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“The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.”
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“A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.”
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“To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.”
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“I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.”
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“I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.”
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“I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.”
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“And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.”
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“Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?”
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“Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.”
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“The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.”
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“Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.”
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“Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.”
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“My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.”
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“In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.”
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“One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.”
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“For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.”
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“Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.”
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“This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.”
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“I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.”
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“What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.”
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“Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.”
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“Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?”
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“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.”
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“If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.”
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“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”
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“You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.”
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“You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.”
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“Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.”
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“I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.”
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“We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.”
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“We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.”
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“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”
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“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”
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“There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.”
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“Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.”
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“Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.”
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“I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.”
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“When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.”
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“Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.”
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“But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.”
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“Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.”
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“What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.”
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“I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.”
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“I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.”
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“George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.”
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“We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.”
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“But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.”
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“You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.”
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“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”
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“I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.”
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“The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.”
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“Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.”
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“I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.”
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“At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.”
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“You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it… Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.”
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“If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.”
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“Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.”
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“President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.”
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“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”
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“I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.”
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“In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.”
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“Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?”
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“The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.”
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“However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.”
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“I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.”
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“To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.”
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“Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.”
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“I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.”
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“It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.”
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“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.”
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“I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.”
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“I will know him by his eyes.”
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“The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.”
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“This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.”
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“In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.”
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“I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.”
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“A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.”
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“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”