Ugly Quotes - Page 29

• Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

  Ryan Gander

  Buying, Sometimes, Should

  "Art-Advising in 3 Acts". Interview with Alexandra Pechman, www.vulture.com. December 19, 2014.

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• For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mind, Everyday, Saying Nothing

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• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Age, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Faults, Humans

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

  Cher

  Kids, Angel, Heaven

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

  Boy George

  Personality, Best Things, Can Do

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• Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Reality, Mud

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• Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Mirrors, Romance

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• Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

  William J. Clinton

  People

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• There is no such thing as an ugly woman - there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive.

  Christian Dior

  Attractive, Know How, Knows

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• Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Knowing, Return, I Smile

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Simple, Men

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• There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

  Susan Sontag

  Calling, Taboo

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.24, Macmillan

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• It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ugly Things, May

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Bird, Saws, Ifs

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• I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Hate, Thinking, Looks

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).

  Dana Cowin

  People, Cracks, Fruits And Veggies

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• People should go to their local grocery store or farmers' market and buy ugly, misshapen foods, then cook with them and document their dishes. And share not only the funny-looking foods, but the fantastic results.

  Dana Cowin

  People, Fantastic, Share

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I'm not saying that I made a film to make young people feel great, not such a simple message, but I really felt that I will not go back to do something depressing. I had to make something happy and funny, and show that there are always many ways to continue - even when you're feeling ugly, or you are forgotten by your parents.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Depressing, Simple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made ​​man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Believe, Inspiration, Men

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• One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

  Kid Rock

  Night, Smoking, Mind

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• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  Oliver North

  Iran Contra, Good The Bad And The Ugly

  "Iran-contra hearings: ;I came here to tell you the truth’; The Colonel states his case: country and orders above all". www.nytimes.com. 1987.

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