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Bobbi Brown Makeup Artist, Entrepreneur
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"How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value."

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Kara Walker Artist
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"I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful"

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Richard Pryor Comedian, Actor
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"There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

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Plato Philosopher
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"Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer."

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