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• I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

  Courteney Cox

  Lonely, Introvert, Ifs

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• The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

  Robert Barron

  Media, Ethos, Years

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• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

  Ross Perot

  Pain, Failure, Knees

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• I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

  Conrad Veidt

  Writing, Wish, May

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• The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

  Will Durant

  Wedding, Men, Wife

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• I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Ungrateful

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• The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Creative, Etching

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

  Bar Refaeli

  Jobs, Inner Beauty, Everyday

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• The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

  Richard Rorty

  Ideas, Differences, People

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• Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

  Stanislav Grof

  Tabula Rasa, Born, Said

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• Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Art, Real

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• The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

  William Rehnquist

  Gestures, Constitution, Treats

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• This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

  Selena Gomez

  Jobs, Makeup, Hair

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• I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Simple, Effort

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

  David LaChapelle

  Needs, Body, Photographer

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• How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

  Cameron Russell

  Impact, Looks, Our Lives

  "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talks, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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• In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Profound, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.260, Harvard University Press

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• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Character, Men, Age

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• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Adults, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

  Ava Gardner

  Inspiration, Deep Down

  Quoted in Roland Flamini, Ava (1983)

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• The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Understanding, Want, Self Knowledge

  Journal, 1922

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• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mean, Sea, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Judging, People, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean, Thinking, Mirrors

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

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