Beautiful Quotes - Page 22

• Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

  Ben Stein

  Men, Years, Hollywood

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Doors, Imagination

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Thinking, Being Beautiful, Credibility

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• The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

  Dean Martin

  Horse, Race, Firsts

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• Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

  Peter Ustinov

  Eyelashes, Vacuums, Looks

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• O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Compassion, Giving

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• I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Role Models, Roles

  Interview with Katie Hampson, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 4, 2004.

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• It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

  Sharon Stone

  Hot, Saws, Instinct

  "'I failed in everything but I picked myself up': Sharon Stone on fame, divorce and her brush with death" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. December 4, 2012.

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• The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

  Peter Shaffer

  Children, Eye, Average

  'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

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• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, White, People

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1977.

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• A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

  Dave Chambers

  Wine, Seductive, Waiting

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• It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

  Francis of Assisi

  Lessons, God Love, Easy

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• The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
  it comes or it lags behind,
  It comes from its embowered garden
  and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Garden, Soul, Looks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press

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• Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

  Wilder Penfield

  Girl, Heart, Weather

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• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Everyday, Different

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• The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Doe, Decay

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• Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Giving, Sick

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• I have a lot of beautiful friends.

  Richard Gere

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• To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

  Erin Wasson

  Creativity, Clothes, Casting

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• To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

  Roger Scruton

  Religious, People, Everyday

  Roger Scruton (2009). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.14, OUP Oxford

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• Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

  John Irving

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Liars, Views, Looks

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• I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Jobs, Vanity, Acting

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• Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.

  Sarah Palin

  Smart, Natural, Wells

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• If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

  Russell Peters

  Trying, Acting, Bollywood

  "'I Hate Bollywood' Says Canadian Comedian Russell Peters" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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