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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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There are no ugly ducklings.
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Loretta Young
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
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John Wilson
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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Robin Williams
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Oscar Wilde
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Author:
Timothy West
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
Author:
H. Wells
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Rachel Weisz
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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
Author:
Steven Weinberg
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Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
Author:
Gene Ween
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Author:
Sam Waterston
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But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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Queen Victoria
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
Author:
Boris Vian
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Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
Author:
James Vega
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You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Author:
Robert Towne
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.
Author:
Mike Tice
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Author:
William Thackeray
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Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
Author:
Sharon Tate
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With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.
Author:
Howard Stern
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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.
Author:
Britney Spears
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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
Author:
Stellan Skarsgard
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I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'
Author:
Marina Sirtis
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Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
Author:
M. Sherwood
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I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Author:
Shakira
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Author:
Sa'Di
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If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
Author:
Winona Ryder
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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?
Author:
Rita Rudner
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There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Author:
Helena Rubinstein
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
Author:
Richard Rorty
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.
Author:
Mickey Rivers
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He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
Author:
Mickey Rivers
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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Author:
Trevor Rabin
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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
Author:
Robert Quine
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With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
Author:
Charles Perrault
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As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.
Author:
Rosie Perez
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A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
Author:
John Passos
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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Author:
Joy Page
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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Author:
Phil Ochs
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Author:
Oliver North
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Author:
Corin Nemec
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We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.
Author:
Steve Nash
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
Author:
Ennio Morricone
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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.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Author:
Anthony Minghella
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
Author:
Frank Miller
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Author:
John Mill
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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.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
Author:
Brian McKnight
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Author:
Karl Marx
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Author:
Judith Martin
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What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
Author:
Marla Maples
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My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
Author:
Nancy Lopez
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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Author:
Frederick Locker-Lampson
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I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.
Author:
Juliette Lewis
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The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Author:
Sonya Levien
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Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Author:
Jay Leno
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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.
Author:
Steven Katz
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
Author:
James Johnson
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My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
Author:
Beverly Johnson
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
Author:
Tom Holt
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Author:
Thor Heyerdahl
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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Author:
Georg Hegel
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I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.
Author:
James Haven
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Author:
Godfrey Hardy
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Author:
Oscar Hammerstein II
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I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.
Author:
Jessica Hahn
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It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.
Author:
Matt Groening
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First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.
Author:
Paul Glaser
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Author:
Andre Gide
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Author:
Bill Gates
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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Well, I'm clearly not ugly.
Author:
Megan Fox
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We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
Author:
Dario Fo
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Author:
Siobhan Fahey
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Author:
Eminem
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
Author:
Raoul Dufy
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There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
Author:
Matt Drudge
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Author:
Laura Dern
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I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
Author:
Bo Derek
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Author:
Rebecca Davis
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Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Author:
Imogen Cunningham
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A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Author:
Tommy Cooper
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Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.
Author:
Diana Cooper
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Author:
John Constable
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Author:
Margaret Cho
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Author:
Malcolm Chazal
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Author:
Iris Chang
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.
Author:
Neil Cavuto
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Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Author:
Jerry Cantrell
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Author:
Emily Bronte
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
Author:
Donna Brazile
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It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
Author:
Dave Blood
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Author:
William Blake
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Author:
Buffalo Bill
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Author:
Yogi Berra
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My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Author:
Roberto Benigni
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Politics is show business for ugly people.
Author:
Paul Begala
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I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
Author:
Kylie Bax
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Author:
Drew Barrymore
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Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
Author:
James Baldwin
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Author:
James Baldwin
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Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Author:
Kevyn Aucoin
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Author:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
