Not Pretty Quotes - Page 2

• Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

  Yoko Ono

  Girl, Mother, Handsome

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• How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.

  Lea Michele

  Jobs, Noses, Enough

  "Lea Michele In Bloom". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Strong, Fun

  Speech About Confidence at the Gloria Awards and Gala, www.vulture.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough.

  Amanda Bynes

  Enough, Beats, Brown

  "Amanda Bynes goes after Rihanna, tweets ‘Chris Brown beat you because you’re not pretty enough’" by David K. Li, nypost.com. May 26, 2013.

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• My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

  David Lynch

  Cows

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• I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

  Channing Tatum

  Jesus, Wall, Truth

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• We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Together, Looks, Salt

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Strong, Eye

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.

  Isabel Coixet

  Nice, Fighting, Reality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

  Joan Jett

  People, Egotistical, Persons

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• It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. But I'm not pretty!

  Kellan Lutz

  Blow, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

  John Doe

  People, Opinion, Relevance

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• It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.

  David Archuleta

  Girl, People, Giving

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• When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Done, Pieces, Able

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.388, e-artnow

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• Do you know they've already seen a drop of 37% in donations [for Clinton Global Initiative]? Now, if it's a charity, why a 37% drop? There's a 37% drop because the donors figured out the Clintons can't do anything for 'em anymore. That's not pretty.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ems, Charity, Initiative

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

  Teresa Lo

  Dad, Thinking, Anorexia

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• Beauty is not pretty.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

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• If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Covered Up, Arms

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• ...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

  Elton John

  Tattoo, Noses, T Shirt

  "Elton John Slams American Rocker Style: “I’m So Over The Tattoos And The T-Shirts And Rings Through The Noses. It’s Not Pretty”...", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

  Beth Ditto

  Teacher, Forever, Singers

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• It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty!

  Kellan Lutz

  Blow, Thinking, People

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

  George Eliot

  People, Enough, Born

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.447

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• the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Light, Two, Long

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.183, Candlewick Press

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• To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Beautiful, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and she couldn't back down now. "Because I know you're going to think I feel bad about it, and I don't." "All right." "Because I'm not pretty. Not in the way Aglionby boys seem to lie." "I go to Aglionby," Adam said. Adam did not seem to go to Aglinoby like other boys went to Aglionby. "I think you're pretty," he said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

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