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I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.


Wole Soyinka

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LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
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LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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LAUREN GRAHAM I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
KARL LAGERFELD My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inn...
BAR REFAELI You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I love the beauty of nature.
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KEVYN AUCOIN Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and auster...
BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and auster...
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KRISTEN ASHLEY I think my face is different, it's exotic - not like normal beauty. I don't have what you would call...
CAROLINE RIBEIRO I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for gi...
OLIVIA COLMAN Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loving. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good...
RICK RIORDAN I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that b...
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and li...
KEVYN AUCOIN Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and li...
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PAUL HORN Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, bea...
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ELLEN PAGE The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
TOM FORD She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an impe...
NEIL GAIMAN Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creat...
JESSIE J I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into...
KIM ALEXIS The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beaut...
TED DEKKER The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry....
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G. H. LEWES Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
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TESSA DARE Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
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UNKNOWN I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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EVA CHEN We find beauty in love, as love is everywhere. However, it all depends on the eyes that see what rea...
MAICHEE SUMMER I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power e...
RICKY SCHRODER Love a woman, Not by her physical beauty And not the color of her skin, But love her what’s in her...
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN [Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & ever...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and th...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in b...
MARISOL NICHOLS I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
JAMES SALTER My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't...
RAF SIMONS Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati...
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Want to show me how beautiful you are? Take off the make-up.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I don't know anymore, whether it's a curse or a blessing to see the beauty in the ugly. Growing up s...
HUBERT MARTIN Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
DONALD KNUTH I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
NAOMI NOVIK I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to hav...
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BILLY OCEAN I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I th...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy w...
CLAY AIKEN Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myse...
CLAY AIKEN I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'W...
ANDY WARHOL I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
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