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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had…
— Michael Caine
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it…
— Bruce Catton
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
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I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
— Kristen Bell
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
— Dolly Parton
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but…
— Unknown Author
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
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