Being Beautiful Quotes - Page 4

• You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Hair, Clothes

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.

  Noel Perrin

  Beautiful, Cities, America

  Noel Perrin (1999). “Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

  Lucy Grealy

  Beautiful, Feelings, Ugly

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Beautiful, Validation, Shade

  Lupita Nyong'o Acceptance Speech for Best Breakthrough Performance, www.essence.com. February 27, 2014.

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• What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Important

  "Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress And Glamour Icon, Dead At 99" by Cole Delbyck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2016.

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

  Plato

  Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?

  Lili St. Cyr

  Beautiful, Sex, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?

  William McDonough

  Beautiful, Children, Intelligent

  "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.

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• The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Beautiful, Rivers, Stones

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• Being beautiful is all in the attitude, it's about confidence.

  Ciara

  Beautiful, Attitude

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

  Ivan Panin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

  Coco Chanel

  Beautiful, Mean, Elegance

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Interesting

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

  James Alan Gardner

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

  Lena Headey

  Beautiful, Hate, Nice

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• Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Ideas, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.

  Jackie Warner

  Beautiful, Running, Sex

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Heart, Ugly

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• Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Fun, Men

  "The Monster Talent: Lady Gaga". Interview with Andy Cohen, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2013.

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• Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

  Sophia Loren

  Beautiful, Hurt, Fun

  "Bombshell". Book by Lynda Curny, 2004.

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• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  Harriet Walter

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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

  Soledad O'Brien

  Beautiful, Thinking, Credibility

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