#tee

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#childhood #complex #ever #had #happen

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy. ↗

— Princess Anne

#easy #expect #grind #ground #i

I also served on many government committees. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#committees #government #i #many #served

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#best #born #connected #consider #errors

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#championship #committee #compete #conditions #entry

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ↗

— Clifford Irving

#became #chairman #committee #got #i

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#music #obsessed #performing #songs #teenager

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#committee #get #idea #kill #want