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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it. -- Rainbow Rowell
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. -- Stellan Skarsgard
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. -- Oscar Wilde
I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful. -- Amy Ryan
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. -- Corin Nemec
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly. -- Penn Jillette
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. -- Margaret Cho
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems. -- Maeve Binchy
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis? -- Frank Tipler
I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me. -- Daron Malakian
I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters. -- Sally Hawkins
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. -- Baruch Spinoza
You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! -- John Lydon
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. -- Joy Page
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness. -- Gary Larson
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me. -- James Gray
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. -- David Remnick
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly. -- Q-Tip
Stay beautiful, keep it ugly -- Gerard Way
Gold makes the ugly beautiful. -- Moliere
Out of ugly, make something beautiful. -- Johnny Weir
Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends. -- Steve Fowler
What's the difference between beautiful and ugly? -- Laozi
Why do beautiful women love ugly men? -- Jill Lepore
Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly. -- Habeeb Akande
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never. -- Oscar Wilde
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both. -- Ann Aguirre
You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly. -- Marilyn Monroe
One man's "ugly" is another man's "beautiful. -- Sherry Argov
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly. -- Oliver Sykes
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. -- Karl Kraus
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them. -- Walter Kirn
Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth. -- Iceberg Slim
A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. -- Jonathan Ive
Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful. -- Renford Reese
Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. -- Michael Gira
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. -- Plotinus
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. -- Jean Cocteau
Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all -- Todd Rundgren
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. -- Victor Hugo
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. -- Robinson Jeffers
It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age. -- Henry Rollins
Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful. -- Harold Arlen
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. -- Theophile Gautier
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. -- Jerry Cantrell
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. -- Enzo Ferrari
Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow. -- Cedric Nye
It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love -- Colleen Hoover
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . -- Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman - nor altogether beautiful. -- Michel de Montaigne
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. -- Glen Duncan
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. -- Oscar Wilde
Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful. -- Lloyd Alexander
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. -- Ambrose Bierce
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. -- Coco Chanel
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful. -- Salvador Dali
I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly. -- Penelope Cruz
Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. -- Agatha Christie
Everyone is born beautiful, some people just let the world turn them into something ugly. -- Wiz Khalifa
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. -- Eric Maisel
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. -- Democritus
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. -- Kiki Smith
Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion. -- Anna Wintour
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley
Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries. -- Sylvie Meis
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. -- John Steinbeck
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. -- Lynn Viehl
I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays. -- John Hodgman
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. -- Oscar Wilde
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. -- David Bailey
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. -- Rumi
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly -- Scott Westerfeld
And â??classically not beautiful' is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you. -- Viola Davis
It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them. -- RuPaul
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. -- Hermann Hesse
Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands. -- John Green
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. -- Lord Chesterfield
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. -- Jose Mourinho
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. -- Saul Bass
I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
No matter how Beautiful something may seem to be. You do not know the Ugly that lurks inside. -- Darnell Houston
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. -- Fernando Pessoa
Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once. -- Lady Gaga
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. -- Ned Rorem
All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful. -- Chris Brown
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. -- George MacDonald
A beautiful woman can make herself look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure. -- Sherry Argov
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. -- August Strindberg
God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. -- John Muir
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Don't ever let a guy make you feel ugly, cause no matter what... you're beautiful with him or without him. -- Wiz Khalifa
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. -- Barry Ritholtz
A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance -- Joe Abercrombie
I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones. -- Ernests Gulbis
See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly. -- Joy Cowley
the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly. -- Florence L. Barclay
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. -- Mona Simpson
Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening. -- Will Alsop
Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what? -- Rick Majerus
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features. -- Audrey Hepburn
What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. -- Drew Barrymore
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. -- Drew Barrymore
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. -- Henry David Thoreau
Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. -- Suzy Kassem
When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad. -- Lao Tzu
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. -- Michael Ende
While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful... -- Jim Toomey
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones. -- Chanakya
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. -- Ayn Rand

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