Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
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Ugly Things
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Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful."
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things."
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"Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil."
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"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."
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"Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature."
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"America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious."
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"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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"I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world."
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"It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit."
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"I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'."
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"His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line."
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