If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.
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HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something ... TIM O'BRIEN Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive? RICK YANCEY In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who ... LOIS GREIMAN I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It&... ANGELINA JOLIE I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all t... ROALD DAHL Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have th... JEFF BEZOS If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keep... LEMONY SNICKET Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering ... DAVID SEDARIS When life shows you its ugly face, try to find the hidden beauty in that ugliness AMIT YADAV If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you&... MICHELLE FORBES If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your... NANCY A. COLLINS I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out... ZOEY DEUTCH I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want s... HARRY STYLES It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've go... KIEFER SUTHERLAND For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you... COBIE SMULDERS I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your lif... JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you... GUY RITCHIE When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style. HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that... PETER CAREY If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the... ADAM GRANT If you find someone that you think is your soul-mate, someone you could potentially spend the rest o... ELVIRA KURT Aspire high but don’t gulp your own Kool-Aid. Find friends who will tell you when your baby is ugl... LILY CHATTERJEE I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool. CHRISTINA AGUILERA I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a v... ED WEEKS If you want something make it a priority. If you can't make it a priority, then it isn't something y... AKIROQ BROST I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic p... KELLY CLARKSON It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit alread... SAFFRON BURROWS If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someon... SHAY MITCHELL You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN You don't bet the farm but you need to be putting some money in as you find stocks that look attract... ALFRED KUGEL There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are ... NIKKI SIXX It's not your imperfections that make you attractive, it's your honesty about them that does. DRISHTI BABLANI, WORDIONS | UNS For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you ... DAVID LYONS If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru... R. FOREMAN If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines... MADELINE ZIMA Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also alw... LISA VANDERPUMP What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are an... KATHERINE MOENNIG On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the p... MARSHA HINDS If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it,... SUZANNE COLLINS My friend, even though, calls charges, network availability and a customer service of your mobile op... DR HITESH C SHETH The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests
you and that you... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so muc... JANE WIEDLIN Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter a... TOMMY TENNEY I drank a little bit and told him it tasted ugly, ... it will relax you. I know you're all stressed ... MICHAEL JACKSON Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduc... JONNY LEE MILLER God make one mysterious beautiful creature in the world name GIRL if you try to found mystery y... ONCAR PATCAR When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it'... BRUCE WILLIS There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly wh... NAT FAXON Why should you find a mind attractive enough to put up with a crippled, aging body? I'm half again y... MERCEDES LACKEY It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken... AMANDA SEYFRIED The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity the... FRANK ABAGNALE When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to ... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Th... ALLISON JANNEY If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against i... CHERRY JONES The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature. J.A. REDMERSKI I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's gr... ANGELINA JOLIE If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or b... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgress... MILTON GLASER If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y... RUTH BADER GINSBURG You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it&... GAVIN NEWSOM The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a p... TONY KUSHNER I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. I... DREW GODDARD Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and yo... BLAKE LIVELY But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is un... ALI LARTER When it's taken away from you like it was him, the feeling you have for the game grows a little bit ... GREG KNAPP And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record... JOAN JETT After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find somet... ELVIS STOJKO I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life ... RON WHITE Lord knows why I find you attractive, Michael, when you generally smell like weed and broken hobo dr... S.J. GOSLEE It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? Th... CARA LYNN SHULTZ If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long na... KUMAIL NANJIANI Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!' I know, I want to tell her. It should have ... LIZ JENSEN Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if i... ERIC SCHMIDT I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through... JILLIAN MICHAELS My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You... BEVERLY JOHNSON It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction. PABLO PICASSO Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it? JEFF FOXWORTHY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to ... ANSEL ELGORT Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to f... CHINA MIéVILLE But seduction isnt making someone do what they dont want to do. Seduction is enticing someone in... WAITER RANT If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite agains... LAMORNE MORRIS If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive. JACK NICHOLSON Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It... LARRY SMITH It's just getting into the ebb and flow of the season. I struggled a little bit at the beginning, bu... CORY SULLIVAN I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive ac... JULIETTE LEWIS Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And w... JIMMY IOVINE Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ... C. JOYBELL C.
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pitchfork. JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi... JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ... JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ... JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ... JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ... JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a... JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim. JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
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Inherits every virtue sound,
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And these have smaller sti... JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ... JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him. JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p... JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit... JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is... JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention. JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ... JONATHAN SWIFT