Not Pretty Quotes

• I'm pretty, but not beautiful.
  I sin, but I'm not the devil.
  I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Beautiful, Angel, Devil

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• I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Angel, Cute Girl

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• I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel, Cute Girl, Devil

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• You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.

  Iris Apfel

  Style, Matter

  "Fashion icon celebrated in final film by Albert Maysles" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Women, Smart

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• The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.

  Jenny Hval

  Body, Shapes, Boring

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

  Patricia Heaton

  Feet, Body, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

  Miranda Leek

  Beautiful, Keys, Archery

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• I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.

  Iris Apfel

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everyone has a view of what’s pretty and what’s not pretty, and [plastic surgery] just doesn’t look pretty to me.

  Heidi Klum

  Views, Looks, Plastic

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• Who says, who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurting? Trust me, that's the price of beauty, who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful?... Who says?

  Selena

  Beautiful, Hurt, Perfect

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• I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

  Eva Longoria

  Sexy, Smart, Mean

  "Eva Longoria Divorce: Star Opens Up About Split From Tony Parker", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

  Huston Smith

  Healing, Government, Association

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

  Dorian Yates

  Jobs, Bodybuilding, Stressed

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• No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Learning, Safe

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• I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
  others the impression that they are.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Clothes, Giving

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  Laura Riding

  Clever, Thinking, Imagination

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Want, Source, Knows

  Interview with Robert P. Rosen, robertprosen.org. June 3, 2011.

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• Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Kissing, Brave

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• I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Style, Amber

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

  Ayn Rand

  Causes, Illusion, Vicious

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.297, Penguin

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• It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Regret, Life Changing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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