Mahatma Gandhi,
Lawyer, Anti-Colonial Nationalist & Political Ethicist
Tag: beauty
The Jackie Robinson of Modeling
“I propose the “Beverly Johnson Rule” for Condé Nast, similar to the Rooney Rule in the NFL that mandates that a diverse set of candidates must be interviewed for any open coaching and front office position. The “Beverly Johnson Rule” would require at least two black professionals to be meaningfully interviewed for influential positions. This rule would be especially relevant to boards of directors, C-suite executives, top editorial positions and other influential roles. I also invite chief executives of companies in the fashion, beauty and media industries to adopt this rule.
“Whitney (Ruth Whitney, Editor-in-Chief – Glamour (1967 – 1998)) declared I was “the Jackie Robinson of modeling.” Forty-six years after my Vogue cover, I want to move from being an icon to an iconoclast and continue fighting the racism and exclusion that have been an ugly part of the beauty business for far too long.”
Supermodel, Actress, Businesswoman & Author
The Beauty of Love
It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we’ve been given.”
a.k.a Joseph Levitch
Comedian, Actor, Singer, Film Producer, Humanitarian, Screenwriter and Film Director
Winner of several Lifetime Achievements Awards from:
The American Comedy Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association,
& Venice Film Festival, Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars (2x)
Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors
(highest Emmy Award, 2005)
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(2009)
Beauty Born of Our Actions, Aspirations & Kindness
Model, Designer, Missionary – World Vision International & Author
A Most Beautiful Body Part
a.k.a. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Dancer, Philanthropist,
Entrepreneur, Founder – Pies Descalzos Foundation,
MTV Video Music Awards (5X),Grammy Awards (2X), Latin Grammy Awards (13X),
Billboard Music Awards (7X), Billboard Latin Music Awards (33X),
Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year (2011),
Chevalier De L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012)
The Roads of Goodness & Forgiveness
two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”
Activist, Politician, Philanthropist, Lawyer,
1st President of South Africa, Philanthropist
Nobel Peace Prize Awardee(1993) & Presidential Medal of Freedom Awardee
Be Unbreakable
and if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn’t have figured out how to be so funny.
If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty,
and if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.”
Actress, Director, Author,
Women Film Critics Circle Awards (2009), Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards (2009),
National Board of Review (2009), Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2009), Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (2009),
Hollywood Film Festival (2009), Detroit Film Critics Society Awards (2009), Chicago International Film Festival (2009),
Satellite Awards (2010), NAACP Image Awards (2010), Iowa Film Critics Awards (2010), Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (2010),
Independent Spirit Awards (2010), Black Reel Awards (2010) & Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (2012)
The On-Screen Look
where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting.
I’m sorry to disappoint people, but I don’t look like that all the time – no actress does.”
Actress & Philanthropist
Beautiful, Each Year
Make-up Artist, Supermodel, Entrepreneur, Pro-Age Pioneer, Founder – BOOM!
One’s Best Cosmetic
Make-up Artist, Supermodel, Entrepreneur, Pro-Age Pioneer, Founder – BOOM!
Your Own Definition of Beautiful
You have to define beautiful for yourself.’
a.k.a. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman,
Fashion Model, Dancer, Actress, Singer, Author
Grace & Confidence
“Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.”
Actress, Businesswoman, Fashion Designer, Singer, Kids Choice Award (2006), Capri Awards (2007),
Teen Choice Award (4X), MTV Movie Award (3X), Hollywood Film Festival Award (2X),
Radio Disney Music Awards (2004) & 2nd SoHu Fashion Achievement Awards (2014)
When You Dream
and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.”
Classical-Crossover Tenor, Singer,
Songwriter & Record Producer
Calming Horses
they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.”
Singer & Songwriter
Everyone’s Beautiful in That Zone
and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone’s beautiful in that zone.”
Entrepreneur, Model,
Actress, & Television Personality
A Battle with Our Name On It
we embrace the reality of the battle, we will miss the beauty of the victory.”
Comedian, Author, Speaker, Actor, Singer,
Associate Pastor – Lakewood Church, Playwright &
Senior Pastor – Redemption Church
An Overwhelming Perfection of Majestic Beauty
and the overwhelming perfection of it.
To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.”
Actress, Singer & ALMA Award (2011)
Thriving in the Middle of the Pain
in the middle of the pain. Unless you find a way to do that,
there’s always going to be this fake illusion that once you get there–
wherever “there” is for you–you’ll be happy.
But that’s just not life. If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness,
you’re not going to find it in beauty, either.”
Co-Owner, Co-Founder & Lead Designer – Magnolia Homes,
& Co-Star – Fixer Upper
Beauty is Something, Not Everything
a.k.a. Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero
Actress, Dancer & Singer,
Tony Awards (2x),
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
& Kennedy Center Honors Award (2002)
Diverse Beings, Same Goals
Co-Founder – Gener8Xion Entertainment, Film Producer & Co-Host – Praise
Be Unapologetic That We Excel
and look beautiful while doing it.”
Television Personality, Talk Show Host, Producer,
Author, Actress & Model
Atypical Beauty
I’m not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let’s hope we’re looking at the insides of people a little more.”
Actress, Director, Screenwriter & Author
Her Greatest Beauty Secret
I don’t use special creams or treatments – I’ll use a little bit of everything.
It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself.
I believe that a lot of how you look
is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life.
Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.”
Recording Artist, Dancer, Actress & Author,
Serving Others
but also what you put into the inside.
Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others.
I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.”
Model, Actress & Marathoner
Obsessed with Beauty
and personally
I’m really saddened by the way women
mutilate their faces today in search of that.”
Actress, Model & Film Producer
Behaving Like a Princess
It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown.
It’s more about how you are inside.”
Film and Stage Actress, Singer, Author, Theatre Director & Dancer
Making Beautiful, Heavenly Streets
Well, I’m trying to make the streets beautiful here … ”
Dancer & Actress
Have This Kind of Beauty, Too
the hard-to-get kind that comes from within –
strength, courage, dignity.”
Actress, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Journalist, Activist,
Obie Award (1971), Drama Desk Awards(1971, 1973), Kennedy Center Honors,
Women in Film Crystal Award (1991), Emmy Award (1991), National Medal of Arts, (1995),
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2000, 2008), Grammy Award (2007) & Spingarn Medal (2008)
A Matter of The Whole Package
You have to look at the whole thing,
not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever.
It has to do with one’s character, personality,
upbringing and so on.”
Actress
The Greatest Beauty
Actress & Model
Look at Life in the Best Way You Can
If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can,
even when there are problems,
it can make you beautiful on the outside.”
Singer, Actress & Record Producer
Never Too Old
to redefine your image
and look fabulous.”
Actress, Author, Columnist, Wig Designer,
Eye-Wear Designer & Creator/Founder – Timeless Beauty
Beautiful Inside
important part of improving one’s self.”
Actress, Business Magnate &
Co-Founder – Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE)
Wabi-Sabi Flaws & Scars
It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about.
I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”
Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian, Academy Awardee,
Screen Actors Guild Awardee (2X) & Golden Globe Awardee (3X)
Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael & St George
Your Beautiful-Life Story
You know what you like. It has to have a story. It has to have quality.
Most of all, it has to authentically reflect you and express your style.”
Antique Dealer, Writer, Entrepreneur & CEO – French Garden House – French Antiques
Express It & Feel It
Writer, Poet, Essayist, Philosopher & Businessman
Immediate Credibility
Author, Keynote Speaker, Columnist, Educator,
Founder of Impression Strategies Institute, Stylist,
Corporate, Political & Celebrity Image Consultant
& Women in Business Achievement Award (2009)
Intently Focused
So, choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful.
Your life is always moving toward something.”
Author
Be Beautiful & Brainy
and I was quiet and never said a word, you know –
teachers loved me, straight-A student.
Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart.
Smart didn’t get you very far, because there weren’t
too many job opportunities for women.
I wondered why you couldn’t be both.
a.k.a Patsy Ann McClenny,
Actress & SAG-AFTRA Board
A Grateful Heart
Co-Pastor, Author, Philanthropist &
Founder, Lakewood Church Women’s Ministry
Be Loyal to the Face
I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. “
a.k.a. Norma Jeane Mortenson,
Actress, Model, Singer and Film Producer
No Unattractives
only those who haven’t learned to look attractive.”
Author, Keynote Speaker, Columnist, Educator,
Founder of Impression Strategies Institute, Stylist,
Corporate, Political & Celebrity Image Consultant
& Women in Business Achievement Award (2009)
The Other Stuff to Do In a Day
I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right
and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.”
Entrepreneur, Super-Model,
Actress, & Television Personality
Every Color In It
“Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it; from leafy greens to purple,
to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavor.
I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils
and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans,
days I might have just a salad and have some lentil soup on the side.”
a.k.a Christie Lee Hudson,
Super-Model, Actress, Artist,
Author & Entrepreneur.
Healthy = Beautiful
how you look – that healthy equals beautiful.”
Actress, Author & Entrepreneur
Ageless
Actress, Model, Singer and Film Producer
Let’s Be Pretty & …
The Manicured, Romantic, Happy Believer
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.
I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
and
I believe in miracles.”
Actress and Humanitarian
Light in The Soul
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”
Kindness: A Lovely Quality
Knowing When to Quit
Vocalist, Songwriter, Actor & Author
Don’t ‘Frankenstein’ Your Face & Body
some beautiful, in my eyes, and some not so beautiful.
But I think we are all created this way for a reason,
so I have no desire to tamper with that.”
Actress, Producer, Director, Activist and Businesswoman
Beautiful Characters
It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,
discipline, fortitude, and integrity
can do a great deal
to make a woman beautiful.
Actress, Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur Insignia Award (2010)
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
An Earned Face, The Face Earned
but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.”
Entrepreneur, Model,
Actress, & Television Personality
Strong, Soft, Smart & Beautiful
”
Journalist, Activist, Author,
First Lady of California (11.17.2003–1.3.2011),
Peabody Award recipient & Emmy Award recipient (2x)
The Most Beautiful Day
become the most beautiful day of your life. ”
a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens,,
Author & Humorist
The Numbers Don’t Fit
because at a certain point, the number just didn’t fit how I felt.
It has become irrelevant to me. I just don’t feel like that number
is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!”
Super-Model, Actress, Artist,
Author & Entrepreneur
The World Around
to not say that one of the best is
to care about the world around you. That’s what really matters.”
Super-Model, Actress, Artist,
Author & Entrepreneur
You’re the Beholder
and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty
is realizing that you are the beholder.
This empowers us to find beauty in places where others
have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Actress, Director, Producer
Glamour ‘Woman of the Year Award’ recipient (2001)
Producers Guild of America Celebration of Diversity Award recipient (2003)
Time ’25 Most Influential Hispanics’ recipient (2005)
Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award recipient (2006)
Knight (Chevalier) of the National Order of the Legion of Honour recipient (France, 2011)
Approving Oneself
before anyone else will.
Women need to celebrate their God-given beauty,
instead of always trying to be something else.”
Fashion Model, Actress and Entrepreneur
Beholding You
Using Beauty
“A Beautiful woman uses
her lips for Truth,
her voice for Kindness,
her ears for Compassion,
her hands for Charity and
her heart for Love.
For those who do not like her,
she uses Prayer.”
Kindness, Beauty & Truth
and time after time, have given me new courage
to face life cheerfully,
have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Prize – Physics (1921),
Barnard Medal (1920), Matteucci Medal (1921), ForMemRS (1921),
Copley Medal (1925), Gold Medal – Royal Astronomical Society (1926),
Max Planck Medal (1929) & Time Person of the Century (1999)