Beauty Pageant Quotes

• I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

  Clay Aiken

  Winning, Hair, Trying

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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 Hughes

  Beauty, New York, Cities

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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.

  Jude Law

  Giving, Directors, Actors

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• The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

  Bob Barker

  Usa, Missing, Unexpected

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• I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

  Gabriela Isler

  Heart, Role Models, Feelings

  "Miss Universe Gabriela Isler Opens Up About The Anti-Chavez Twitter Controversy" by Lucia I. Suarez Sang, www.foxnews.com. November 21, 2013.

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• We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

  Jay Leno

  America, Issues, Political

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• True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

  Leslie Ludy

  Queens, School, Two

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers

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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  Hadley Freeman

  Smart, Successful, Pockets

  "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

  Cintra Wilson

  Fun, Writing, Ghetto

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• My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

  Pam Grier

  Mother, Winning, Issues

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

  Elizabeth Ray

  Disappointment, Ambition, People

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• Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

  Dana Gould

  Winning, People, Tornadoes

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 13, 2013

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• The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

  Marc Marcel

  Truth Is, Pageant, Meant To Be

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• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Women, Youth, Pageant

  "Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel Interview - YES MAN". Press conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

  Cintra Wilson

  Ghetto, Socialism, Pageant

  "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.

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• I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Marriage, Stupid, Gay

  "Schwarzenegger on abortion, gays, environment". edition.cnn.com. August 28, 2003.

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• Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

  Dana Gould

  Children, Earthquakes, Parent

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• Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Queens, Differences, People

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• In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

  Rodney Crowell

  Art, Children, Media

  Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

  Pam Grier

  Girl, Country, Dream

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

  Susan Faludi

  America, Years, Justice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

  Halle Berry

  Makeup, Pageant, Playing Around

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Queens, World, Kindergarten

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• The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

  Jay Leno

  Fighting, Thinking, Missing

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