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Appearance Quotes
"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."
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"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."
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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
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"Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance."
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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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"It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis."
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"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."
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"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."
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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."
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"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."
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"I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder."
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"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
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"Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign."
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"Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker."
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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
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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."
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"To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't."
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"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."
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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."
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"The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly."
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"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
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"Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality."
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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."
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"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
42
"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."
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"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
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"Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing."
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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
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"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue."
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"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."
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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."
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"Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you."
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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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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."
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"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
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"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."
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"I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off."
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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."
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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."
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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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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner."
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"The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance."
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