Vanity Quotes

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

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• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Piano

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Rich
  • Difference
  • Being Rich

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• My life is better with every year of living it.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birthday

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Strong

• Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • World

• When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Up
  • School
  • Sports

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• Johns experience as a college and NFL running back, as well as the coaches he has both played for and coached with, makes him an ideal person to coach our backfield. He has been successful coaching both NFL and college running backs. We are very fortunate to have him join us.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Experience
  • Fortunate
  • NFL

• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

  

  Vanity
  • Experience
  • Mad