beauty
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘beauty’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.” -Junichiro Tanizaki
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“But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.” -Anne Boyd
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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.” -Richard H. Baker
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“There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.” -Anna Katharine Green
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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.” -Marston Morse
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“A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.” -Clarence Stein
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“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.” -Laurette Taylor
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“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul’s doing.” -Marie Carmichael Stopes
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“And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty’s lofty trust secure.” -William Allen Butler
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“If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.” -Peter York
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“I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you.” -Joan Blondell
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“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.” -Alberto Korda
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“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that’s what I want to give.” -Dame Edith Evans
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“I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.” -Isaac Albeniz
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“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.” -Ambrose Philips
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“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” -L. Wolfe Gilbert
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“All the beauty of the world, ’tis but skin deep.” -Ralph Venning
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“Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.” -Emily Prager
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“I feel by posing for Playboy I’ve discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.” -Heather Kozar
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“Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.” -Peter Latham
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“The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!” -Meagan Good
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“The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.” -Charlotte Smith
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“You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.” -Guglielmo Marconi
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“It’s harder, but we’re still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That’s the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea…
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“Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold.” -James Randolph Adams
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“The beauty of the past belongs to the past.” -Margaret Bourke-White
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“It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It’s like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.” -Serge Haroche
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“I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.” -Renee Vivien
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“Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.” -Francesca da Rimini
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“I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.” -Jerry Mathers
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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.” -Gustav Stickley
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“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.” -Vera Brittain
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“I think love and beauty are what life is all about.” -John Derek
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“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” -Godfrey Harold Hardy
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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.” -David Rittenhouse
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“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.” -Herbert Gold
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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.” -Max Roach
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“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by…
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“I’m not a party animal I took my job as Miss USA very seriously… Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I’m a beauty queen, you’re also an unofficial ambassador, and there’s a lot of pressure.” -Rima Fakih
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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.” -Ally Condie
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“I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.” -Luis Figo
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“I played with the same band for years and years and there’s a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it’s nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.” -Grant-Lee Phillips
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“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.” -Fritz Todt
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“The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.” -John Foster
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“It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.” -Alfred Jarry
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“When I first thought of the idea for ‘Sweet Valley High,’ I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from ‘Sleeping Beauty’-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different,…
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“Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.” -Leslie Jamison
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“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.” -Max Bill
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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.” -Leon Battista Alberti
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“Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.” -Dodie Smith
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“I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.” -Ella R. Bloor
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“I’m not trying to stump anybody… it’s the beauty of the language that I’m interested in.” -Buddy Holly
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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.” -Billy Ocean
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“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.” -Lew Wallace
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“But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.” -James Nasmyth
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“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.” -Charles Churchill
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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.” -Samuel Daniel
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“What I loved about ‘Summer’ was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.” -Kevin Williamson
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“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.” -Brad Meltzer
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“I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I’m a beauty lady.” -Naya Rivera
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“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it’s also the only gift that does not keep on giving.” -Paulina Porizkova
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“Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.” -James De La Vega
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“Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt
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“People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.” -Judith Jamison
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“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.” -James Beattie
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“I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or ‘convulsive’ beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.” -Jeff Vandermeer
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“The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.” -David Gower
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“People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.” -Thomas Kincade
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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.” -Christopher…
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“It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.” -Edgar Rice Burroghs
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“The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John’s Pizzeria.” -Mark Feuerstein
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“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?” -Rosalind Russell
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“I’ve just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn’t a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She’s one of those life-affirming characters.” -Sophie Thompson
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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.” -Sharon Tate
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“Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.” -Leni Riefenstahl
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“I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I’m in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I’ll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I’m sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour.…
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“Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.” -Moses Mendelssohn
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“I was always anti-marriage. I didn’t understand monogamy. I couldn’t figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone – of having a partner in life.” -Maria Bello
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“Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.” -Margot Asquith
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“I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but… that doesn’t mean I won’t treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good…
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“Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.” -Christopher Lambert
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“I always say beauty is only sin deep.” -Hector Hugh Munro
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“All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.” -Ernst Haas
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“Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.” -John Masefield
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“Beauty doesn’t matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.” -Ann Curry
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“We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.” -Mary McDonnell
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“In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn’t use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears – she might lick your face off!” -Joel McHale
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“I feel fortunate that I’m not a beauty. I’m not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.” -Olivia Colman
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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.” -Gustave Courbet
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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.” -Saskya Pandita
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“Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine’s beauty and Renee’s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.” -Colleen Atwood
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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.” -Gordon Gee
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“I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad – I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what…
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“There’s one more thing I want to say. It’s a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn’t always as celebrated as other types. I’d like to help change that if I can!” -Jody Watley
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“Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.” -Chrisette Michele
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“When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.” -Frederick Sanger
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“Surely these women won’t lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.” -Rose Schneiderman
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“My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.” -Natasha Henstridge
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“Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It’s a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.” -Andrej Pejic
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“Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.” -Florenz Ziegfeld
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“This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.” -Teri Hatcher
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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.” -Derek Walcott
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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?” -James Thomson
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“For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.” -Matthew Prior
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“We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.” -Heather Wilson
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“When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.” -Yusef Lateef
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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.” -Tom Udall
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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.” -Howard Carter
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“The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.” -Pat Metheny
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“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.” -Thomas Nash
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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.” -Miranda Kerr
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“The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.” -George H. Mead
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“Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” -Nadine Gordimer
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“I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.” -Sylvia Kristel
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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.” -Joan Smalls
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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!” -Alexander Alekhine
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“The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.” -John Lone
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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.” -Charlie Haden
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“I’d like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.” -Allison Janney
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“When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.” -Natalia Vodianova
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“This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That’s what it’s all about and that’s why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That’s the beauty of the cup.” -Ian Rush
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“I’ve been on the cover of ‘Time’ magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I’ve worked with teams all my life, but I’ve been nice and I’ve been kind.” -Cheryl Tiegs
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“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn’t good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.” -Felicity Huffman
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“I’m from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.” -Evangeline Lilly
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“Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.” -Donna Rice
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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.” -Tila Tequila
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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.” -Mary Chapin Carpenter
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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.” -Ron Ben-Israel
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“The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.” -Karolina Kurkova
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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.” -Christopher Wren
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“You don’t have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that’s where the beauty comes from.” -Daphne Zuniga
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“Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.” -Bryant McGill
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“I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.” -Mireille Enos
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“You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That’s your benchmark, that’s your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.” -Dan Hawkins
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“I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.” -Linda Evangelista
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“The beauty of ‘The Walking Dead’ and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it’s your backstory, it’s part of what you are, it’s what you carry with you every day.” -Laurie Holden
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“Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.” -Leonard Maltin
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“I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.” -Tom Perrotta
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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.” -Michael K. Powell
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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!” -Alexander Herzen
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“Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East – I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.” -Mstislav Rostropovich
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“We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.” -David Amram
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“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.” -Doris Day
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“We didn’t have a beauty shop as I grew up.” -Jenifer Lewis
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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.” -John Erskine
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“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.” -Arthur Cayley
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“One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.” -Miriam Beard
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“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.” -Marguerite Gardiner
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“And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.” -Erika Slezak
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“Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he’s not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That’s why he inspires people and inspires me.” -Stephen Collins
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“The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.” -Minna Antrim
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“Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!” -Jamie Zawinski
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“Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.” -Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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“I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.” -Jung Chang
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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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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” -Alfred de Vigny
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“The U.S. states that allow for citizens’ initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don’t. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.” -Daniel Hannan
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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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“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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“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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“I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night’s sleep.” -Angela Kinsey
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“I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone’s face.” -Fan Binbing
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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.” -Paul Dirac
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“The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.” -Lee Scott
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“A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.” -Paul D. Boyer
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“My work is not about ‘form follows function,’ but ‘form follows beauty’ or, even better, ‘form follows feminine.’” -Oscar Niemeyer
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“The beauty of golf, you’re in charge out here.” -Mike Weir
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“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.” -Jonathan Ive
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“Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.” -Philip Roth
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“Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.” -Robert Bridges
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“Maybe I’m old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals – particularly the endings of shows.” -Marvin Hamlisch
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