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Amy Adams Actress
Beauty

"Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since."

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Audrey Hepburn Actress, Humanitarian
Beauty

"Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty."

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Beauty

"Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
Beauty

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
Beauty

"Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Beauty

"Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it."

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Theodore Parker Transcendentalist, Minister
Beauty

"You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Beauty

"Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Beauty

"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."

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