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• Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

  Anna Friel

  Children, Men, Eternity

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• One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Humility, Hands

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity over a role in which they have to look like a moron. They're worried they'll damage their sex appeal. Thankfully, I have no problem looking like a moron!

  Emma Stone

  Sex, Real, Thinking

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• Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Running, Air

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• All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

  David Steel

  Political, Politics, Politician

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• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Weakness, Crime

  "Les Caractères, II". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.

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• The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Editing, Ego

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Literature, Conviction, Firm

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• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Changed, Acknowledge

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Girl, Wall, Teenage

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• Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

  Michael J. Fox

  Hands, Long, Worry

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• An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Success, Beautiful

  "'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  Lady Gaga

  Space, Know How, Knows

  "Lady Gaga launches 'slutty' fragrance". Interview with Maggie Lake, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking, Worry, Get Better

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• I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Guy, Comfort, Metrosexuals

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• The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

  Tom Hanks

  Way, Forrest Gump, Bonfire

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• When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Self, Drug

  "Ethan Hawke on Fame: 'The Demons Start to Tempt You'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. January 05, 2010.

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• There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

  Helen Hayes

  Christmas, Bed, Four

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• Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Guy, Looks, Care

  "Oscar knight". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Fall, Grace

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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Thinking, Hands

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Chiefs, Motive

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.68

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Hate, Conceited

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Confused, Thinking, Males

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• By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

  James Madison

  Pride, Two Sides, Luxury

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