Personal Grooming Quotes

• We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

  Don DeLillo

  Believe, Following Rules, Grooming

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Years, Cute Funny, Age

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

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• I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Makeup, Dust, Perfect

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

  Robert Teeter

  Son, People, Guy

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• In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

  Groucho Marx

  Wedding, Hollywood, Bouquets

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• But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

  Red Grooms

  Fun, Boys, Play

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• In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

  Robert Wagner

  Play, Roles, Bigs

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• I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal grooming style. It's more comfortable and cozy; it's less sharp and angular and businesslike. I feel like a beard is more Hobbit-like, even though Hobbits themselves are clean-shaven.

  Nick Offerman

  Style, Levels, Cozy

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• There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

  Will McDonough

  Enough, Shallow, Results

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• A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Cat, Ideas

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• Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

  Anders Zorn

  Inferno, Elevators, Stairs

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• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Eight, Support, Charity

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• My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

  Bela Kun

  Influence, Revolutionary, Proletariat

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• As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Intercourse, Regard, Personal Relationships

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• My work is intensely personal.

  Andres Serrano

  Grooming

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• I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

  Michael Strahan

  Winning, Years, Goal

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• The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Self, Psychology, Development

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

  David Cronenberg

  Communication, Mean, Stuff

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

  Enya

  Fans, Grooming, I Can

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

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• I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.

  Eugenia Price

  Christian, Spiritual, Hair

  EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”

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• Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

  William Bernbach

  Humorous, People, Looks

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• I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

  David Selby

  Appearance, Contracts, Grooming

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

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• A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

  James Payn

  Race, Accomplishment, Example

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  Calista Flockhart

  Fascination, Kill Me, Personal Life

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