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" Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. "

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" I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. "

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" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. "

" The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. "

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" The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men. "

" Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

" What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! "

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" The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other. "

" Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. "

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" You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. "

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" The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. "

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" Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. "

" Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what's on the inside. And if you're genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same. "

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" Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. "

" Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. "

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" Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up. "

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" I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery. "

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" Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. "

" The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion. "