Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything."
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Glitter
89 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lady Gaga
Singer, Actress
"Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"All that glitters is not gold."
Charlie Watts
Drummer
"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
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"The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters."
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"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
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"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove."
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."
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"Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul."
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"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."
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"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
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"Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry"
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"What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same."
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"Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them."
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"I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll."
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"Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it"
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"But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age."
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"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
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"Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself."
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"A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow."
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"There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself."
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"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?"
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"[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues."
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"[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers."
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