Appearance Quotes - Page 15

• If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

  Kathy Ireland

  Self Esteem, Guarantees That, Business Success

  "Kathy Ireland: Designing Woman". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

  Kathy Ireland

  Absolutely Nothing, Built

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• I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

  Michael Jackson

  Dancing, Doe, Faces

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• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, People, Leader

  "Daniel Kahneman’s Gripe with Behavioral Economics". Interview with Jesse Singal, www.thedailybeast.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Way, Absolutes

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• Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Girlhood and Character". Book by Mary Eliza Moxcey, p. 27, 1916.

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• Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Fuel, Stuff

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.

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• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  Carl Lewis

  Actors, Businessman, Stills

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• Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Tools, Concerned

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• But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

  Pierre Loti

  Real, Giving, Darkness

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• There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Inspirational, Life, Two

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• I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

  John Malkovich

  Inspired, Bohemian, Millennium

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• The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Years, Assault Weapons

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• It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

  Shirley Manson

  Criticism, Magazines, Easy

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• You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

  Danica McKellar

  Smart, Math, Makeup

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Long, Exclusion

  "'Wonder Years' star insists smart is sexy" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Headache, Minimum, Mines

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

  Patton Oswalt

  Mean, Reality, People

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• What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

  Patton Oswalt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mouths

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• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  Danica Patrick

  Commitment, Hot, Use

  "Danica Patrick dishes on Indy exit, NASCAR and Daytona 500". Interview with Nate Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 14, 2011.

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• My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

  Minnie Pearl

  Country, Husband, Redneck

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• My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

  Ron Perlman

  Self Confidence, Self

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

  Christopher Reeve

  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Want, Way

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.

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