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Lauren Conrad Television Personality, Fashion Designer
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"I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad."

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Lauren Graham Actress
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"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious."

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity."

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Geena Davis Actress
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"I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies."

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Neve Campbell Actress
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"When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?"

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason."

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