925 private quotes tagged beauty

“I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.” — Kirk Gibson

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“As long as I love Beauty I am young.” — W. H. Davies

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“Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.” — Rose Byrne

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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.” — Walter Mosley

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“And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.” — Lisa See

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” — Oliver Platt

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“The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.” — Edward Tufte

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“It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?” — Hilary Swank

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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.” — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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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.” — Gertrude Jekyll

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“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.” — Marianne Moore

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“Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.” — Naomi Wolf

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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.” — Naomi Wolf

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“Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.” — Karen Thompson Walker

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“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.” — Northrop Frye

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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.” — Dave Reichert

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“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.” — Julia Margaret Cameron

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“I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.” — Melanie Fiona

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“Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.” — Anne Heche

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“For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.” — Richard Morris

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“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.” — Lisa See

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“Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.” — William Wycherley

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“I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.” — Angela Kinsey

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“As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!” — Angela Kinsey

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“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.” — Polykarp Kusch

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