The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy… and on and on and on.
I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don’t scare me.
Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
I’ve had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.
I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that’s not how the world works.
I’ve always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.
There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There’s very distinct crossover behaviors.
Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
I tend to think that these white supremacists like Terreblanche, the boneheads of the BNP and Bernard Manning are all so revoltingly ugly and unpleasant that they make the best possible advertisement for mixed marriages. Would you prefer your daughter to look like Naomi Campbell or Bernard Manning?
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud.
In this war on truth we are all living in, ‘hoax’ is a potent, malicious, ugly little word and Trump has been using it more every year. So has Fox.
If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.
I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.
I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.
You can’t listen to what people who aren’t musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don’t want to hear, ‘Your kid is ugly.’ But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
I have let go of ugly things that have happened to me.
My friends used to call me ugly. Even my mum would say it.
Filipinos don’t wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.
It’s great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn’t start off so great it’s not that big a deal: everybody’s baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What’s the story we’re trying to tell?
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don’t think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It’s flattering, but funny.
That’s just me and my own body issues – I think I’m fat and bald and old and ugly.
I felt that I was worthless, that I was ugly, that I didn’t deserve anything. I thought people would think, ‘What have you got to be depressed about?’
The classic French blanch-and-cool technique I learned at Chez Panisse yields the kind of brilliant, picturesque vegetables we all want to see on restaurant plates. Long-cooked foods, on the other hand, fall firmly into the ‘ugly but good’ camp of the Tuscan cucina povera, where flavor far outshines looks.
You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
People say, ‘Burt Reynolds is so good-looking.’… I used to set him up for bait. I’d send him to the student union, and he’d come back with a beautiful girl and an ugly one. But his ugly girls were better than anything I’d get on my own. With his looks and my car, we’d kill ’em in Tallahassee.
You know, I’m a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is ‘The Ugly One With the Jewels,’ a spoken-word record. It’s an extraordinary album.
I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don’t mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what’s going to be pretty about me later.
I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don’t like those.
For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness – both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I’ve come to feel like this is me.
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I’d choose.
I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you’re ugly, you can’t rap, you’re the hardest.
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning – back to their roots.
To me, ‘Garden of Delete’ is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever.
Ugly Betty’ has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn’t a part of a show that has such unique characters.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
It’s tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.
I just think religion is something… It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that’s when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Let’s say another YouTuber rates my outfit from Coachella, right? They are completely entitled to their opinion, and I actually really loved my Coachella outfit. If they say, ‘This is ugly,’ and even if I don’t think it’s true, it’s a mood killer.
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
It’s fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, ‘Oh, she’s lost her looks.’
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
If we need to play ugly to win a match, we are going to do that.
I’ve felt ugly and insecure.
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
I’ve worn some ugly shoes.
Those parts of myself that are too ugly or dangerous are precisely the things I feel convicted to share.
I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell?
Nobody wants to pay to see a real chick fight because it’s ugly and it doesn’t sell.
You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
When I started, fashion for curvy women was very ugly.
Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.
As an actor, you may do things that aren’t politically correct. Unless you’re an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don’t do the good, bad, and the ugly, we’re not going to progress.
When I went to college, I came across MMA. My first reaction was, ‘No, I don’t want to fight. I just want to learn jujitsu.’ I didn’t know what UFC was; in my mind it was this violent, ugly sport. But when I watched my first amateur fight, I fell in love with the sport and thought it was beautiful.
