Unattractive Quotes

• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  Emily Mortimer

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Virtue, Our Time

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminist, Feminism, Dumb Things

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

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• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Clever, War

  Heart of the Matter (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

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• I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

  Amy Sedaris

  Thinking, People, I Can

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• I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

  Patty Duke

  Self, People, Pity

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam

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• If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Rome, Would Be

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• Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  People, Looks, Obsession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

  Amy Adams

  People, Actresses, Tease

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Laughing, Helping

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• Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

  Jessica Savitch

  Attention, Literature, Attractive

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I was a personality before I became a person.

  Barbra Streisand

  Personality, Persons

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• Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Choices, Tasks

  Evelyn Underhill (1940). “Abba: Meditations Based on the Lord's Prayer”

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• I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ideas, People, Tendencies

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• I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Idols, Looks

  "First Banana". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. July 5, 2010.

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• If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

  Helen Hunt

  Real, People, Messages

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• Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, Men, Insulted Him

  Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, twitter.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Dream, Art, Distance

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• I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.

  Emma Watson

  Strong, Men, Expression

  "Will Feminism Be Reborn? A Sign of Hope" by Kathleen Kelley Reardon, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

  Graham Greene

  Husband, Way, Helping

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I'm always more attracted to the unattractive.

  Amy Sedaris

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• Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Attributes

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• Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Flower, Balls

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• If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.

  David Berlinski

  Reality, Thinking, Irrelevance

  David Berlinski (2010). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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