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" People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? "

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Fernando Botero

" Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look. "

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" Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. "

" To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in. "

" Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. "

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" The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. "

" Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. "

" My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. "

" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "

" For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday. "

Monica Bellucci

" We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. "

" Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me. "

Katherine Schwarzenegger

" Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. "

" Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of that, you'd rather perpetuate the great battle of the races. "

" I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going for. "

" You really don't need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature. "

Erin Heatherton

" The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. "

" My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had. "

" The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. "

" My mom is very much about 'less is more.' She showed me how to use makeup to enhance your beauty but not to change your face, which I think is important. "

" There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions. "

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

" It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living. "

Rosalind Russell

" When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety. "

" The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing. "

" Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. "

" You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. "

" Beauty without expression is boring. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers. "

George Harrison

" They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. "