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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Some people treat eyebrows like real estate - they firmly believe in the importance of location, location, location.
Author:
Emma Stone
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True beauty lies not in the perfection of appearance, but in the authenticity of being.
Author:
Emily Parker
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
Author:
William Wills
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
Author:
George Whitefield
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
Author:
Randy West
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
Author:
Randy West
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I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.
Author:
Mike Weir
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
Author:
Andre Weil
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.
Author:
Fritz Weaver
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Author:
Vera Wang
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
Author:
Ulrich Walter
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Author:
Alice Walker
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The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Author:
Sid Vicious
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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
Author:
Tom Verlaine
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
Author:
Alanna Ubach
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One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
Author:
Fritz Todt
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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.
Author:
Kevin Thomas
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Author:
Bishop South
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
Author:
Garry shandling
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Appearance rules the world.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
Author:
Elisabeth Rohm
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I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Author:
Mary Retton
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A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
Author:
Usher Raymond
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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
Author:
Phaedrus
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They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.
Author:
Minnie Pearl
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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
Author:
Francis Parkman
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Author:
Ovid
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First appearance deceives many.
Author:
Ovid
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Author:
George Orwell
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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Author:
Alanis Morissette
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In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
Author:
John Moody
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Author:
Kate Millett
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We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
Author:
Mary McGrory
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On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
Author:
Marc Maron
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Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
Author:
Franz Marc
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Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
Author:
Mainbocher
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Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
Author:
Peter Lynch
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Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
Author:
David Low
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But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
Author:
Julie London
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Author:
Cesare Lombroso
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My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
Author:
Jude Law
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We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
Author:
Frank Langella
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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.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.
Author:
Diane Kruger
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Author:
Michael Korda
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One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
Author:
James Kirkwood
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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Author:
Ernst Kirchner
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Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.
Author:
Harvey Keitel
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Author:
Leon Jouhaux
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I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
Author:
Rafer Johnson
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
Author:
James Johnson
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
Author:
Lara John
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But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
Author:
Gwen Ifill
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What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
Author:
Benny Hinn
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Author:
Don Herold
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In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
Author:
Albert Hart
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One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
Author:
Tonya Harding
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Author:
Alec Guinness
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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
Author:
Pam Grier
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Author:
Boy George
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Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Author:
Alexander Fleming
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Author:
Jean Fabre
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.
Author:
George Dawson
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Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
Author:
William Dampier
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I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.
Author:
Roger Daltrey
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Author:
George Cuvier
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The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
Author:
Denise Crosby
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What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
Author:
Andrew Cohen
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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Author:
George Catlin
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Author:
Angela Carter
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
Author:
Frances Burney
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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
Author:
James Buckley
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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
Author:
Hjalmar Branting
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Author:
Victor Borge
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Author:
Sarah Bernhardt
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The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Author:
Shelley Berman
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Author:
Hans Balthasar
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Author:
Hans Balthasar
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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
Author:
Douglas Bader
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Author:
Arthur Ashe
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Author:
Aristotle
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Author:
Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Author:
Aristotle
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Author:
Aesop
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Author:
Kate Adie
