Ugly Quotes - Page 8

• They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.

  Biz Markie

  Sound, Looks

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• I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.

  Keith Duffy

  Way, Enough, Notes

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• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Writing, Editing, Years

  "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.

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• I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

  Connie Chung

  Equality, Men, Thinking

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• I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

  Andrew Flintoff

  Overweight

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• My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Faces, Masculine

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• You rhapsodize about beauty,
  and my eyes glaze.
  Everything that I love is ugly.
  I mean really, you would be amazed.
  Just do me a favor,
  it's the least that you can do,
  just don't treat me like I am
  something that happened to you.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mean, Eye, Love Is

  Song: Adam And Eve

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• I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Thinking, Mind, Back In The Day

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

  John McCain

  People, Hollywood, Ugly People

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• Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

  John McCain

  Father, Clinton, Knows

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  William James

  Happiness, Attitude, Mean

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Better Person

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• In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

  R. D. Laing

  Beauty, Lying, Reality

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Birthday, Memories, Years

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• Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

  Robert Towne

  Respect, Long, Lasts

  Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.80, Grove Press

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• Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Chance, Highways

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Second Rape of the West"), 1977.

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• Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

  Richard Avedon

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Cynical, Comforting

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

  Hannibal

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• I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

  Pete Sampras

  Hate, Winning, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.

  Thom Yorke

  Government, Evil, Dolphins

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• I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Car, Toxic

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• Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

  Leon Krier

  Distance, Light, Land

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.75, Island Press

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• It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful.' So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

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