Beauty Quotes
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
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“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
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“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
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“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
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“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
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“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
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“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.”
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
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“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
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“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
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“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
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“Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.”
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“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
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“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
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“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
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“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
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“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
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“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
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“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
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“The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.”
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“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
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“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
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“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
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“You're beautiful, like a May fly.”
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“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
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“A women's greatest asset is her beauty.”
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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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“Integrity reveals beauty.”
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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
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“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
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“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.”
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“To love beauty is to see light.”
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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
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“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
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“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”
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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.”
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“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
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“Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.”
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“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”
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“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
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“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
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“Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?”
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“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”
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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
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“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”
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“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
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“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
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“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
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“Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.”
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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
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“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”
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“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.”
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“My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.”
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“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
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“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
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“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”
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“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”
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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
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“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”
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“Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.”
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“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”
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“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”
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“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
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“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
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“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
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“Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
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“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”
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“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”
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“The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.”
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“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.”
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“Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.”
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“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
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“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
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“I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
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“Beauty is less important than quality.”
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“The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.”
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“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
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“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
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“How goodness heightens beauty!”
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“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
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“You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.”
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“I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.”
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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”
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“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”
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“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.”
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“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
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“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”
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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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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
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“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
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“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.”
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“Beauty is only skin deep.”
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“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.”
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“I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.”
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“You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.”
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“Beauty without expression is boring.”
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“The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”
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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
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“Exuberance is beauty.”
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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
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“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”
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“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”
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“There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.”
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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
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“Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.”
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“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.”
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“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.”
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“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”
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“O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!”
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“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”
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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
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“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”
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“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
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“It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.”
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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
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“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
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“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
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“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
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“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”
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“I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.”
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“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.”
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“It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.”
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“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
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“I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.”
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
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“No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.”
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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”
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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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“There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.”
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“A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.”
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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
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“To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you're naturally yourself, you're beautiful.”
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“It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.”
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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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“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.”
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“The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.”
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“There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.”
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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
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“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.”
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“Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.”
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“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”
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“There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.”
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“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
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“We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.”
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
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“The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.”
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
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“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
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“The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.”
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
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“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
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“I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.”
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“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.”
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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
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“There is beauty and humility in imperfection.”
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“True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.”
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“Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.”
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“Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.”
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“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”
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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
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“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”
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“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
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“Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.”
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“Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.”
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“Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.”
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“I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.”
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“Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.”
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“Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.”
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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
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“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.”
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“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
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“Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.”
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“As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.”
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“People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
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“The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.”
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“I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.”
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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
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“Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.”
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“Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.”
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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
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“When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.”
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“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”
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“I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.”
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
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“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”
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“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.”
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“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.”
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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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“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”
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“Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.”
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“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
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“Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.”
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“He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.”
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“My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!”
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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
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“Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.”
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“Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.”
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“A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.”
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“Beauty is not everything!”
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“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
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“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”
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“Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.”
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“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.”
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“Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.”
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“To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.”
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“I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.”
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“I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.”
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“My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.”
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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
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“There's beauty in imperfection.”
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“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.”
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“That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.”
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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”
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“The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
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“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
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“There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.”
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“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
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“True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.”
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“There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.”
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“Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.”
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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
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“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.”
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“Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.”
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
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“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”
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“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
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“Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.”
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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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“Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.”
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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
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“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”
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“When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.”
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“The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.”
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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”
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“Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.”
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“My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy.”
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“Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.”
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“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
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“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
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“Beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, 'Damn.'”
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“The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.”
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“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.”
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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
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“Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.”
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”
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“Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.”
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“Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.”
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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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“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
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“Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.”
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“The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.”
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“Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.”
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“I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.”
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”
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“We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.”
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“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.”
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“Inner beauty radiates from within, and there's nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.”
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“Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.”
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“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.”
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“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
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“Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.”
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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.”
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“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.”
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“To me, 'sexy' is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.”
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“If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.”
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“We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.”
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“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
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“Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.”
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“For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.”
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“I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'”
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“Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.”
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“I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.”
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“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
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“Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.”
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“There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.”
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“Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.”
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“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.”
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“To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.”
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“What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.”
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“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.”
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“Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.”
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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”
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“You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.”
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“I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.”
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“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
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“I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.”
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“The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.”
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“A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.”
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“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
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“Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.”
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“The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.”
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“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
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“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.”
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“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”
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“The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.”
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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
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“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”
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“Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!”
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“In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.”
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“Our bodies are always going to change, and we might not always love that, but it really has nothing to do with true beauty. True beauty comes from within.”
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“I find beauty in imperfection.”
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“Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.”
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.”
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“The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.”
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“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.”
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“I am a thing of beauty.”
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“The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!”
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“I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.”
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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
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“Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.”
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“Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.”
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“Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.”
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“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”
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“I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.”
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“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
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“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.”
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“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.”
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“The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.”
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“I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.”
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“In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.”
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“Black beauty - he's a dark horse.”
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“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”
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“Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.”
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“People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.”
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“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.”
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“I think confidence is a true form of beauty.”
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“People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.”
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“I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.”
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“Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.”
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“I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.”
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“I think the most powerful beauty is representative of uniqueness and individuality of every person.”
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“I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.”
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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”
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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
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“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
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“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
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“I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you're living for the beauty of today.”
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“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
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“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
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“It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.”
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“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
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“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”
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“Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.”
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“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.”
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“You have to embrace your body, whether it's curvy or whatever you may be. You have to embrace who you are. Beauty comes from the inside not out.”
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“That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.”
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“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.”
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“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”
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“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.”
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“Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.”
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“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
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“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
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“The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.”
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“My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair… I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.”
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“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
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“Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.”
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“You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'”
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“My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.”
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“A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.”
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“Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.”
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“You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.”
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“Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.”
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”
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“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?”
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“The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.”
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“My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'”
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“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”
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“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
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“I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless… but still chic!”
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“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”
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“I've found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.”
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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”
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“The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.”
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“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”
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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.”
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“Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?”
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“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”
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“When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.”
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“Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life story across 5,000 years and you chart the evolution of our conflicted relationship with sex and with the female body.”
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“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”
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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
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“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”
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“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”
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“The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.”
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“Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.”
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“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”
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“Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.”
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“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
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“We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.”
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“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”
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“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
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“A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”
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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
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“I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.”
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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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“I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.”
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
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“Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.”
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“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
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“I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.”
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“Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.”
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“The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.”
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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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“Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.”
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“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”
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“I worked on becoming a better person and nurturing what I've been blessed with, improving my skills and taking care of my health and beauty.”
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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”
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“I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.”
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“The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.”
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“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”
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“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”
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“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
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“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”
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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
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“The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.”
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“To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one's confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!”
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“Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.”
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“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
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“We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.”
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“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”
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“Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.”
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“It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.”
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“Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.”
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“Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.”
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“For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.”
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“A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?”
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“Beauty is boring because it is predictable.”
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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”
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“Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.”
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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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“Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.”
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“Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.”
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“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.”
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“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”
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“We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.”
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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”
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“Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.”
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“When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.”
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“We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'”
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“There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider… The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.”
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“There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.”
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“Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.”
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“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”
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“Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.”
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“The Bahamas is a beautiful place, but half of that beauty is found in the clear warm ocean that surrounds the Islands.”
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“You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.”
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“Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.”
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“My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.”
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“The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.”
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“The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.”
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“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
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“You are a human being and are allowed to be imperfect, and you are allowed to be flawed. There is a lot of beauty in your imperfections, in your uniqueness.”
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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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“I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.”
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“'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.”
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“The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.”
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“I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?”
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“I like a girl with natural beauty.”
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“I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.”
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“I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.”
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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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“A man is not capable of giving the way a woman gives. She is stronger. When a woman sacrifices, it lends her grace and beauty.”
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“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
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“The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.”
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“When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.”
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“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
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“That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.”
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
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“My beauty regimen is simple but concise: I exfoliate my face once a week, then cleanse. If my skin needs an extra boost, I use SK-II Facial Treatment Mask and SK-II Eye Mask for about 20 minutes. It's the best thing for a healthy, glowing complexion.”
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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”
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“The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works… but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.”
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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”
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“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.”
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“I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.”
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“I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.”
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“For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.”
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“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”
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“My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me.”
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“Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.”
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“I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.”
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“This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.”
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“Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.”
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“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.”
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“I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.”
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“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.”
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“Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.”
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“Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.”
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“Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.”
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“Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.”
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“I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.”
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“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.”
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“Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors.”
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“What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”
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“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
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“The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.”
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“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.”
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“When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.”
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“Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
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“I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.”
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“It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.”
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“Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”
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“I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty gliding on water. I wondered what it would be like to use male dancers and bring out swans' aggressive, muscular side.”
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“I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.”
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“When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood.”
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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
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“If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.”
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“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
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“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
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“No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.”
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“There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.”
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“I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.”
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“The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days - dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That's historically been cricket's most fascinating gift.”
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“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.”
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“The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.”
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“In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.”
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“In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.”
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“I get to escape this crazy world that I live in. I think that's the true beauty of running.”
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“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
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“This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.”
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“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.”
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“Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.”
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“Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.”
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“Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.”
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“In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.”
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“Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.”
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“Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.”
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“In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.”
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“Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.”
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“But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.”
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“Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.”
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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
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“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”
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“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”
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“If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.”
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“When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I'd say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.”
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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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“Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.”
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“My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.”
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“The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!”
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“I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.”
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
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“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.”
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“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
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“Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.”
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“The beauty of the past belongs to the past.”
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“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”
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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
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“Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.”
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“Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.”
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“People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.”
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“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.”
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“I really like Pam Grier's whole 'Coffy' aesthetic. It's just natural. It's not even anything that they were overdoing back then. I really like that natural beauty kind of thing. But at the same time, I really like thick, winged eyeliner.”
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“The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.”
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“My beauty secret is really three secrets: get eight hours of sleep, eat natural/organic food, and exercise regularly.”
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“I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.”
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“I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.”
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“Sleeping and water are lifesavers - that's true beauty right there.”
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“People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.”
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“I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.”
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“I'm not trying to stump anybody… it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.”
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“You, Eternal Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship.”
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“For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?”
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“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”
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“The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.”
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“Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.”
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“The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.”
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“I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country… No other country has such human capital.”
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“Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.”
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“Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.”
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“Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.”
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“Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.”
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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
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“I'm not against beauty; it just sounds boring to me.”
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“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
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“Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.”
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“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”
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“A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.”
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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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“I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for every Halloween.”
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“Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands of Hawaii and the natural beauty of our majestic national parks?”
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“I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.”
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“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.”
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“To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.”
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“All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.”
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“We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.”
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“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.”
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“The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.”
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“I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.”
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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”
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“I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.”
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“The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.”
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“Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.”
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“Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.”
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“It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.”
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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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“Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.”
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“I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.”
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“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
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“It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.”
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“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”
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“One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn't before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.”
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“You must love yourself. The reasons you have for not loving yourself, you have made up. Interrogate these false allegations until the beauty of your true self emerges.”
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“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”
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“My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.”
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“Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It's technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements - the wind, the water, the weather.”
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“An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.”
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“I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.”
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“Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.”
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“Life is about travel, and beauty in life, the love we find, the joy we have the laughs we have together. That's what I'm dedicating the rest of my life to.”
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“We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.”
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“Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.”
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“We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.”
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“We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.”
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“What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.”
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“That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.”
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“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.”
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“Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.”
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“For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.”
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“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
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“Beauty comes from the inside.”
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“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
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“The beauty of hockey players is that they make everyone feel included and make everyone feel a part of it.”
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“In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.”
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“Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.”
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“I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.”
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“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”
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“Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.”
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“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy, except it's real.”
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“A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.”
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“My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.”
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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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“Spend a day around my players, around my African-American players, my Hispanic players, my Polynesian players, and you'll see the true beauty of who they are.”
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“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
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“My ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.”
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“In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.”
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“As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities… but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.”
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“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”
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“I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.”
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“I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.”
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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
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“All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.”
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“First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.”
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“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.”
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“The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.”
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“One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.”
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“He's my idol. Putin is a beauty.”
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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
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“I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.”
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“I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.”
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“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.”
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“In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.”
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“As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.”
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“Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.”
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.”
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“Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.”
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“Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.”
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“Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.”
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“Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.”
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“We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.”
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
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“I love beauty.”
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“To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.”
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“Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”
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“You really don't need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.”
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“The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can't be proved, that just makes it more 'real.' It's not a question of believing or not believing, really; it's more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.”
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“Beauty is health. Health is beauty.”
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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“If you want to get into the shoes of someone, it's not just about seeing and hearing. It is also about what you touch and what you smell. Smell is so specific and so powerful. And this is the beauty of immersive theatre - it's something you cannot get in any other art form. I think this is the real future for theatre.”
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“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
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“I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?”
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“I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.”
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“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.”
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“It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.”
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
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“By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.”
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“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
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“The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.”
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“In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.”
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“Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.”
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“There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.”
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“The most important thing about 'Devil May Cry' is that the action itself, there's beauty to it.”
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“The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”
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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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“Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.”
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“I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.”
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“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
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“I once saw a TikTok beauty hack about taking a hot bowl of water and using it to steam your face. I tried it, and it feels so good.”
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“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
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“I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.”
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“I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.”
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“My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.”
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“Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that's kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn't be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.”
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“Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.”
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“Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.”
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“I enjoy the beauty of the bubble, they're fluid and yet they have these geometric shapes so they do surprising things - two spheres become a single sphere - it's what bubbles do.”
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“I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.”
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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.”
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“The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.”
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“I am a natural beauty. I can wear sweatpants and running shoes and I stop traffic on the street - people have accidents when they drive and they spot me.”
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“I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand.”
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“I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.”
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“I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.”
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“Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.”
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“I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.”
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“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
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“Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.”
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“Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.”
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“For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.”
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“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”
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“People know there's more than one side to me. You can have beauty and brains and athletic ability. You can switch up the cleats for heels once in a while. You can do both.”
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“My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.”
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“In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.”
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“I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.”
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“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.”
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“I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.”
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“Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.”
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“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”
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“People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.”
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“We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.”
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“Winning a beauty pageant and the Miss India title was always a dream.”
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“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”
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“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”
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“The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it.”
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“Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'”
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“I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.”
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“Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.”
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“Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.”
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“Beauty is the lover's gift.”
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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”
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“For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.”
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“To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
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“From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.”
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“You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.”
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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
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“I don't speak Punjabi. My dad runs a beauty salon and is an Elvis fan.”
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“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”
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“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”
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“Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.”
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“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
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“I concentrate more on inner beauty because when I worry too much or think negatively, it shows through my skin.”
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“I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.”
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“The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.”
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“I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.”
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“I admire natural, untouched beauty.”
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“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
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“In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty standards from the West, it seems that many African women feel they need to be fair and slim to be beautiful.”
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“If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that.”
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“Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.”
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“The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.”
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“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”
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“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”
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“Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.”
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“Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.”
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“I truly believe diversity is beauty.”
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“There's a beauty in being unrealistic.”
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“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
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“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
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“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
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“For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.”
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“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”
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“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
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“Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.”
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“I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.”
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“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
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“Form follows beauty.”
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“Happy Skin is all about natural beauty. They don't want you to wear something that's harsh on your skin and I want that as well.”
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“Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.”
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“I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty.”
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“The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.”
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“The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.”
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“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.”
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“The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.”
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“Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.”
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“There is beauty in everything.”
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“Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”
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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
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“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”
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“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.”
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“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”
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“I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.”
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“Let's teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.”
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“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.”
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“Alabama is a land of bountiful natural beauty, and our state and local trails are a means to experience and enjoy that outdoor splendor.”
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“I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.”
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“If you're 5' 6", just stay home. Don't pretend you're 5' 8" or 5' 9". If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that's fine, you can do glamour, but you're not going to do runway. If you're over 29 - 26, even - I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.”
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“Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir - which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.”
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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
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“I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.”
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“For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.”
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“A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.”
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“When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.”
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“Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.”
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“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”
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“Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.”
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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
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“After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.”
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“I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.”
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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
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“Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.”
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“These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.”
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“The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.”
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“I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.”
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“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
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“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”
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“We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.”
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“Miss Earth, to me, means a lot more than an international beauty pageant. It implies a larger than life celebration of spirit, beauty, passion, and betterment.”
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“I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.”
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“I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they're so good, and we're all trying to get the same parts.”
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“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
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“A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.”
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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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“I think something I explore a little bit in my music is how there's this majestic, natural beauty in the Pacific Northwest, but also this kind of underlying eeriness.”
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“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”
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“I felt like for it to really turn into something, you have to jump in with both feet. And it always turns out a little different than you imagined it, but that's kind of the beauty of it, when you feel musically confident enough to just kind of follow where it goes.”
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“The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.”
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“The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?”
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“Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.”
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“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”
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“The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.”
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“How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!”
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“Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.”
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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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“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
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“People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?”
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“I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.”
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“Huda Beauty is doing so well, we've grown like crazy.”
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“For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.”
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“I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.”
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“The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.”
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“We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.”
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“Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.”
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“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”
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“That's the beauty of being above board - you can brag about your winnings.”
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“People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.”
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“The more natural or eco-based products you can introduce into your beauty regimen, the more beneficial it is for your skin. It's similar to introducing organic food into your daily diet.”
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“Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.”
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“I like to play like that, with beauty and grace.”
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“I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.”
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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
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“Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.”
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“I love my beauty. It's not my fault.”
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“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.”
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“When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.”
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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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“Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.”
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“I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'”
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“The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.”
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“The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.”
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“You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.”
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“Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.”
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“I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.”
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“There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.”
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“We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.”
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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”
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“The beauty of YouTube is double the effort isn't double the views, it's like 10x.”
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“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.”
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“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.”
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“To visit the West Coast, now and always, is to be overwhelmed by its beauty - the blue water and blue skies, the temperate air and the beaches and the looming mountains not so far away.”
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“As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State - a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.”
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“Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.”
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“The sheer sensory experience of San Francisco is unlike anywhere else. Not just the physical beauty, but the textures, the feel, the wind, the ocean. It's a monumental feeling unrivaled by anywhere else. Its a world class, gorgeous city. And the coffee is great.”
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“So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.”
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“My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.”
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“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
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“The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.”
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“I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.”
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“This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.”
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“Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.”
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“The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.”
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“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
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“I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.”
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“That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.”
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“The beauty of what Apple does at Apple is that they're not on trend; they are classic.”
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“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”
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“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”
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“You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.”
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“The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.”
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“Beauty is not just physical.”
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“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
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“Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.”
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“The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.”
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“For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?”
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“Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.”
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“Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.”
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“It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.”
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“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.”
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“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
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“My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don't know, boyish - it's all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.”
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“It's time to understand that women aren't just about love, care, beauty and body, but also about respect.”
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“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”
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“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.”
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“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.”
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“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
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“The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.”
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“Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I also know that funny outlasts pretty any day of the week.”
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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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“The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.”
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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
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“Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.”
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“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
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“I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.”
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“There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.”
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“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.”
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“In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.”
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“Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.”
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“I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.”
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“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.”
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“The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.”
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“The thing Pop did for me and did for a lot of coaches is - he let me coach. It seems really simple, and that's the beauty of being with Pop and being around Pop.”
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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
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“I want young girls and women to feel like they connect with me and that they don't have to aspire for unreal beauty or fashion standards.”
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“I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.”
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“I want to share my passion for the world's beauty and give others new reasons to care.”
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“That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.”
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“The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.”
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“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
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“I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just… boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.”
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“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”
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“The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.”
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“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”
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“I love beauty supply lip gloss. Any cheap, 99-cent lip gloss. I use it, it stays on all day. You can eat anything and it will still be on your lips. You can drink anything, it's still on there.”
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“The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.”
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“My family is my biggest support system. They played an important role in transforming me from the girl-next-door to a beauty queen.”
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“It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.”
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“I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.”
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“What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.”
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“I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.”
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“Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.”
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“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”
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“The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.”
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“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.”
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“If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.”
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for real.”
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“Honestly, at the end of the day, what I want women to know is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. And that it should not define who you are.”
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“My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.”
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“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
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“This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.”
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“It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.”
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“Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!”
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“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.”
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“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.”
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“I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.”
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“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”
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“Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.”
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“The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.”