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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Quote by Aaliyah about attitude, sex, things, people, contentment

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it...

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

Quote by Aaliyah about opinion, sex, contentment

I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group interested in literary criticism.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about criticism, literary critic, success, reason

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature, concentration, human imperfections, power, things, contentment

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about value, use

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about present, man

A new star with a tremendous national appeal, the skill...

A new star with a tremendous national appeal, the skill of a consummate showman.

Quote by Russell Baker about celebrity

I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their...

I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality.

Quote by Prince Andrew about vitality, eyes, time

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, innocence, melancholia, being

I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the...

I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the other books or people who thought they wouldn't be interested in them.

Quote by Michael Chabon about haven, books, hope, people, thinking

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Quote by Colin Firth

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people...

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, sex, contentment, people

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the...

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, contentment

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that...

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

Quote by Brad Paisley about water, contentment

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing...

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really...

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about sex, magic, thinking

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is...

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Quote by Erich Fromm about nation, being, culture, sex, people

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Quote by Claude Debussy about beauty, joy

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers...

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Quote by André Breton about rules, life

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