"Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings."

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Source : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

Nancy Etcoff

#Beauty Quotes #Dream Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“When we're home sometimes, she'll put on mascara. And sometimes I'll let her wear something out to dinner - but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she'll feel.”
“If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.”
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
“Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call â€œnerdsâ€ and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.”
“I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.”
“Light that is One though the lamps be many.”
“I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.”

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