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#1. At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

Iggy Pop

#2. How do I get more people to view my "facebook page?

Mike Kendrick

#3. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Harold E. Varmus

#4. It was an odd sensation, having to view my family as human beings.

Jojo Moyes

#5. I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

John C. Reilly

#6. If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

Donald Trump

#8. I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

Eileen Myles

#9. My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

Julia Glass

#10. I don't view my opinions as the right ones; they are just different.

Glen Taylor

#11. I view my hair and clothes as functional art ...

Erykah Badu

#12. I'm actually happier with my body now ... because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.

Cindy Crawford

#13. I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.

Roy Spencer

#14. I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, 'Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!

Thomas Hardy

#15. Lily?" a deep voice called from behind me. I didn't recognize it. I spun around and backed up as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. My stomach dropped. Had he been hiding between the trees?

Natasha Preston

#16. I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

Nate Silver

#17. I have done extensive research and, almost universally, found that the people who view my blurbs and observations as "anti-family" are dicks.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person ... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Buchi Emecheta

#19. I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Barry Zito

#20. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

Tao Lin

#21. Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Marge Piercy

#22. I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

Jamie Chung

#23. I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

Tony Hsieh

#24. I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.

Thomas Nagel

#25. I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

Banks

#26. I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

Marilyn Manson

#27. I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Sun Myung Moon

#28. I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

Hugh Herr

#29. What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

Spike Jonze

#30. I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction ... And the only customer.

Craig Ferguson

#31. I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

#32. From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share.

Fred DeLuca

#33. With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

Michael Dirda

#34. I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Jack Nicholson

#35. If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.

Aaron D. O'Connell

#36. The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump,

Alex Zanardi

#37. Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.

Shahad Ameen

#39. I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

Drake

#40. I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day." ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

Lisa Kleypas

#41. There were nude pictures ... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

Paul Reubens

#42. My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.

Uday Kotak

#43. Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

Mark McKinnon

#44. As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

Pranab Mukherjee

#45. Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Michael Wilbon

#46. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

#47. I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

Jeremy Grantham

#48. Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#49. From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

Frederick Lenz

#50. I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.

Georg Solti

#51. In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

#52. Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Katsuki Sekida

#53. For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Carol S. Dweck

#54. I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell.

Andy Murray

#55. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

Bill O'Reilly

#56. In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

#57. I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

Billy Joel

#58. In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#59. I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

Garry Trudeau

#60. In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

Dan Ariely

#61. I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Stephen Fry

#62. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

Saul Leiter

#63. I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

Martin Freeman

#64. I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

Dorothy Allison

#65. It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

Daniel Handler

#66. My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

Jeremy Corbyn

#67. I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

Mireille Guiliano

#68. To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

Noel Coward

#69. My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Dickens

#70. Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

Matthew Perry

#71. You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

#72. Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Bob Woodward

#73. My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.

Antonin Scalia

#74. My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.

Edgar Allan Poe

#75. I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Blaise Pascal

#76. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Matt Chandler

#77. The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Robert Adams

#78. This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

Lorrie Moore

#79. There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.

David Papineau

#80. Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

Michael Hayden

#81. I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

Vladimir Putin

#82. In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Karl Popper

#83. My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One

Zeno Of Elea

#84. I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

Bill Gates

#85. My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

Biz Stone

#86. In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Vinod Khosla

#87. There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

T.C. Boyle

#88. It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

Dave Barry

#89. My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

Nita Ambani

#90. Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

Tony Cascarino

#91. It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

Wilkie Collins

#92. My office window overlooks a parking lot. I've got the best view on the whole submarine.

Jarod Kintz

#93. I didn't pay much attention to Jared until he blocked my view of the couple by standing in front of me. I almost protested, but then he turned his body and bent over. What I saw when he did was enough to make me start begging for him to undo the restraints holding me in the chair.

Candi Kay

#94. My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.

Dave Chappelle

#95. I don't like such "great questions" - my view is that life consists of a million little questions and that it is always only the totality of those that really matters.

Sandor Marai

#96. My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

Angus King

#97. While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise.

Dante Alighieri

#98. My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

Madonna Ciccone

#99. The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Ayn Rand

#100. Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

Brian May