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#appearances

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #appearances




People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.


Perry Como


#ambitious #appearances #competitive #fooled #i

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.


Charles Van Doren


#appearances #total #were

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.


Robert Teeter


#audiences #avoided #could #country #each

The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila's Front Porch, Tawny's High Five Ranch and Miss Delilah's House of Holies. "Nice," Rachel said as we surveyed the scene. "why are these places always named after women -- as if women actually own them?" "You got me. I guess Mister Dave's House of Holies wouldn't go over so well with the guys." Rachel smiled. "You're right. I guess it's a shrewd move. Name a place of female degradation and slavery after a female and it doesn't sound so bad, does it? It's packaging.


Michael Connelly


#brothels #degradation #exploitation #marketing #prostitution

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.


Liam Perrin


#appearances #discouragement #dreams #longing #wisdom

I'm wondering whether I can explain," said Lee. "Where there is no likeness of experience it's very difficult. I understand you were not born in America." "No, in Ireland." "And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing." "If you cut your queue, dressed and talked like other people?" "No. I tried it. To the so-called whites I was still a Chinese, but an untrustworthy one; and at the same time my Chinese friends steered clear of me. I had to give it up.


John Steinbeck


#chinese-american #experience

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.


John Green


#blending-in #life

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.


Amanda Hocking


#life #life

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.


Abraham Lincoln


#character #simile #substance #character

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#charm #fashion #fashion






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