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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
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Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?'. It came from me. One day I decided… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“When you become vulnerable, any ideal or perfect image of yourself falls away. (...) Many people are addicted to perfection, and in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
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What is sexy? Sexy is standing in the rain pushing her up against the hood of your car with the intent to… — Amanda Copy Share Image
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
WOMEN WHO SPEND ALL DAY IN FRONT OF A MIRROR OR HIDING BEHIND A MASK OF MAKEUP ARE SIMPLY PRETTY PICTURES TO… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and… — Penni Russon Copy Share Image
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
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“We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard… — Buddha Copy Share Image
My earliest memory was watching my mother do her makeup. She was obsessed with beauty and collected makeup and experimented with it.… — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility,… — Elizabeth Brundage Copy Share Image
“We celebrate the beauty and reason of the individual, and resist the coercion of the state and the tyranny of the majority.… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“I followed Jared outside and eyes the slick, black beauty parked on the curb. “What is that?” Jared sighed. “It’s a Vulcan.”… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
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I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
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“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Part of the beauty—and it is the original flaw in this type of literature, from which the famous Lundis are not exempt—lies… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The gospel can lift this destroying burden from the mind, give beauty for ashes, and the garment of praise for the spirit… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
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People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I need to believe The truth cleans your mind Truth refreshes Truth is solid Truth is beauty, beauty is truth The truth… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
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