The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

About Salma Hayek

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Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault ( HY-ek, Spanish: [ˈsalma ˈxaʝek]; née Hayek Jiménez; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela Teresa (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama Midaq Alley (1995). She soon...

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I have gotten a lot more attention than… other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

—Margaret Cho

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

—Margaret Cho

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