Ugly Quotes - Page 3

• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Knowledge, Science, Government

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Politics is show business for ugly people.

  Paul Begala

  People, Political, Politics

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• Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

  Suzy Kassem

  Weed, Flower, Negativity

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.

  Robert Greene

  Hate, War, Pride

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Beautiful, Children, Wall

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• My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

  Max Miller

  Marriage, Goodbye, Wedding

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• Modesty was made for the ugly.

  Theophile Gautier

  Modesty, Made

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Faults, Charming

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Miserable, Filipino

  "Homage to Imelda's Shoes". news.bbc.co.uk. February 16, 2001.

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• Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Zoos, Kids, Men

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• I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Dirty, Home

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• When you hire a person to plan your wedding, this does not include securing the groom. Plan to get married on Friday the 13th. In years to come this will make it much easier to explain why things turned out badly. To look beautiful at your wedding, take time to plan it. It took me a long time to find two ugly bridesmaids and a frumpy little flower girl.

  Phyllis Diller

  Beautiful, Girl, Friday

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• Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

  Frank Zappa

  Friendship, Stupid, Mama

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• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right set of values and understand why you're doing it. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already gotten to that point, and seen all the yuck stuff - which is probably why they originally didn't want me to act.

  Laura Dern

  People, Get Real, Want Me

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Temptation, Desire

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• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Fans

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

  William James

  Attitude, Mean, Painful

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato”, p.204

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• I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, Mother, Ugly Duckling

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• The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

  Rumi

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

  Alfred Jarry

  Tonight, Company

  Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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