Not Pretty Quotes

• You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.

  Iris Apfel

  Style, Matter

  "Fashion icon celebrated in final film by Albert Maysles" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I'm pretty, but not beautiful.
  I sin, but I'm not the devil.
  I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Beautiful, Angel, Devil

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• I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Women, Smart

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• I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel, Cute Girl, Devil

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• I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Angel, Cute Girl

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• First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

  Halle Berry

  Class, Guy, Gentleman

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

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• We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

  Ava DuVernay

  Brave, World, Figures

  Source: deadline.com

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• I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.

  Iris Apfel

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

  Patricia Heaton

  Feet, Body, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

  Eva Longoria

  Sexy, Smart, Mean

  "Eva Longoria Divorce: Star Opens Up About Split From Tony Parker", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Who says, who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurting? Trust me, that's the price of beauty, who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful?... Who says?

  Selena

  Beautiful, Hurt, Perfect

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• The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.

  Jenny Hval

  Body, Shapes, Boring

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Learning, Safe

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• In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

  Miranda Leek

  Beautiful, Keys, Archery

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• If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sweet, Flower, Humility

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

  Matt Chandler

  Tears, Messages, Mess

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• To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

  Catherine O'Hara

  Men, Hands, Guy

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

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• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Optimistic, Realism

  "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.

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• It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

  Frances Trollope

  Should Have, Cities, People

  Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Comedy is not pretty.

  Steve Martin

  Comedy

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• So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Decision, Doe, Decision Making

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Children, Giving, World

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• I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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