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Appearance Quotes
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
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"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
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"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
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"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
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"My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small."
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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."
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"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
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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."
58
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
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"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
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"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
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"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
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"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."
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"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
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"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
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"She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men."
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"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
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"Beauty is only skin deep, but who gives a shit what's under their skin anyway?"
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"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
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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."
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
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"She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses."
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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."
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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."
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"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
49
"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
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"The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off."
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"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance."
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"She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine."
48
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
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"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
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"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
46
"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."
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"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
46
"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
46
"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
45
"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."
45
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
45
"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."
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"I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder."
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"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues."
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"On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement."
44
"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."
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"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
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"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."
42
"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."
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