Ugly Quotes - Page 40

• The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Dream, Becoming Who You Are, Ugly Duckling

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• You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Sorry, Persistence

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Should

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

  Chris Martin

  Beauty, Speak, Wells

  "The importance of being earnest". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2005.

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• I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

  James McAvoy

  Men, Thinking, White

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

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• Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hurt, Passion, Jealous

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• Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Beautiful, Time, Years

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

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• I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Use

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• The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Action, Confession, Dare

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, New York Review of Books

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• Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

  Jose Mourinho

  Beautiful, Intelligent, People

  "Mourinho in his own words" by Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. September 20, 2007.

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• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Secret, Energy, Economic

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• I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

  Howard Nemerov

  Children, My Children, Squat

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• Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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• In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

  Phil Ochs

  Protest

  Liner notes for studio album "Pleasures of the Harbor" by Phil Ochs, October 31, 1967.

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• Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

  Patton Oswalt

  Long, Gorgeous, Ends

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• When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

  Henry Paulson

  Cost, Problem, Bigs

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• I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, People, Our Words

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  David Remnick

  Beautiful, Jobs, Crazy

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• Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

  Samuel Richardson

  Sorrow, Faces, Ugly Face

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.132

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• He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

  Mickey Rivers

  Wrinkles, Curves, Balls

  "My MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium Commemorative Interview with Mickey Rivers". Interview with Dave Hollander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

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• I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

  Karl Rove

  Littles, Stage, Walks

  "Party Loyalist". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2008.

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• I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

  Kelly Rowland

  Girl, Perfect, Noses

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Character, Scripts

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