Plutarch Quotes
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
Abbey Clancy -
As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
Natalie Zea -
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Barbara Demick -
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso -
When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
Abby Wambach
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
Wayne Rooney -
Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
Larry David -
'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
Jack Zipes -
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Uma Thurman -
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B. C. Forbes -
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
Jack Henry Abbott
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
Laura Benanti -
I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
Ursula Andress -
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
Dan Quinn -
You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
Kate Moss -
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono -
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
Ramakrishna
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The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
Anne Fadiman -
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
David Alan Grier -
'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
A. J. Muste -
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
Billy Joel -
I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh -
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Plutarch