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- Nov 07, 2020
Beautiful Quotes
Beauty defined on its own terms, not just appearance.
This set treats beauty broadly: a paradise-like landscape someone calls perfect, questions about whether a ballet career stays beautiful as it winds down, and pushback against assumptions about what beautiful or capable women look like. For beauty tied to affection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.
- Harnessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.
- Being Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
- Active
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- Nov 07, 2020
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That's that piano on 'Keep Your Name' and 'Work Together' and 'Little Bubble.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things that you naturally assume to be opposite because they're presented that way most of the time, and the way she twines them together is so beautiful. To be able to do that is so powerful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020