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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here - -- Emily Dickinson
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. -- Gloria Steinem
Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on. -- Katherine Webb
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. -- Zooey Deschanel
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. -- Maria Menounos
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world. -- Joyce Giraud
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. -- Jude Law
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. -- Wallace Stevens
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners. -- Jessica Valenti
They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on Jeopardy! and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one. -- Jay Leno
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world. -- Joyce Giraud
The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants. -- Marc Marcel
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. -- Bob Barker
I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant. -- Ronda Rousey
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." -- Ambrose Bierce
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants, -- Hadley Freeman
I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way. -- Elizabeth Ray
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. -- Clay Aiken
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. -- Alexander Pope
My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, 'You have to stop washing your hair so much!' -- Joyce Giraud
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. -- Donna Rice Hughes
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. -- Virginia Woolf
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling. -- Albert Einstein
True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life. -- Leslie Ludy
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. -- Augustine Birrell
I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair. -- Molly Quinn
I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me. -- Joyce Giraud
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus. -- David Walton
I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience. -- Amanda Latona
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. -- DeWitt Clinton
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. -- Clay Aiken
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. -- Donna Rice Hughes
Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare. -- Joyce Giraud
I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no one does that with heroes, but with actresses it's the same number game. It's not a bloody pageant. Everyone has something unique to offer. -- Anushka Sharma
I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition. -- Joyce Giraud
It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special. -- Steve McFadden
Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters. -- Beth Grant
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. -- Greg Iles
History is a pageant and not a philosophy. -- Augustine Birrell
The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave. -- Roger Scruton
Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant. -- Rush Limbaugh
Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant. -- David Letterman
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. -- Dana Gould
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup. -- Halle Berry
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. -- Washington Irving
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote. -- Susan Faludi
Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen. -- Dana Gould
I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it! -- Eva Longoria
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age. -- Rodney Crowell
I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends. -- Abbey Curran
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. -- Edward Everett
High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar. -- Dennis Vickers
High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar." -- Dennis Vickers
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere. -- Thomas Campion
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration." -- DeWitt Clinton
I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible. -- Abbey Curran
T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in. -- Chuck Todd
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield. -- Joshua Chamberlain
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. -- Ambrose Bierce
"¦So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky -- John Dryden
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare
My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues. -- Pam Grier
The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace. -- Jay Leno
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities. -- Frederick Lenz
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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