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One of the chapters is' Vanity' burgers, so, we had to take advantage of this mention. It was too out there. We had to jump on it. – Mark Bucher	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A couple of years ago, I was at a Vanity Fair party and I met the real Steve Martin, he said he was honored to be named after a tank! – New York singer-songwriter Chloe Temtchine	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
The attention of a superior is too flattering to our vanity not to call it forth. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
They like the wealth of the world but they can’t understand the people of our country, it is vanity. – Lucy Musyoka	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Right now there is no question that it's all about Caitlyn Jenner.The Diane Sawyer interview partnered with Vanity Fair cover story is only the beginning, the other members of the family should embrace their time out of the spotlight because it's Caitlyn's turn to shine. – Valerie Greenberg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Bruce always had to tell a lie, caitlyn doesn't have any secrets. As soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I'm free. – Bruce Jenner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's been an extraordinary year in my trading career. You must understand that for me to be in the top 30 is not a vanity thing. – Brian Harvey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What we don't want is vanity space programs, as it stands, I think they are focusing more on the space programs and less on the education ... (space programs) have to be designed as a capability program otherwise the economic return will not be fully realized. – Calestous Juma	Found on CNN 9 years ago
These weird buildings are too alienated from basic architectural norms and... have become super-sized art installations that jump on the desire and vanity bandwagon. – Cheng Taining	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that “Image is Everything,” also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. – Walter Raleigh	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton	added by anonymous 9 years ago
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. – Christina Rossetti	added by anonymous 9 years ago
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone. – Swami Krishnananda	added by anonymous 9 years ago
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. – Thomas à Kempis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. – Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? – Vincent van Gogh	added by anonymous 10 years ago

One of the chapters is' Vanity' burgers, so, we had to take advantage of this mention. It was too out there. We had to jump on it.

– Mark Bucher

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A couple of years ago, I was at a Vanity Fair party and I met the real Steve Martin, he said he was honored to be named after a tank!

– New York singer-songwriter Chloe Temtchine

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

The attention of a superior is too flattering to our vanity not to call it forth.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

They like the wealth of the world but they can’t understand the people of our country, it is vanity.

– Lucy Musyoka

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Right now there is no question that it's all about Caitlyn Jenner.The Diane Sawyer interview partnered with Vanity Fair cover story is only the beginning, the other members of the family should embrace their time out of the spotlight because it's Caitlyn's turn to shine.

– Valerie Greenberg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Bruce always had to tell a lie, caitlyn doesn't have any secrets. As soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I'm free.

– Bruce Jenner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's been an extraordinary year in my trading career. You must understand that for me to be in the top 30 is not a vanity thing.

– Brian Harvey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What we don't want is vanity space programs, as it stands, I think they are focusing more on the space programs and less on the education ... (space programs) have to be designed as a capability program otherwise the economic return will not be fully realized.

– Calestous Juma

Found on CNN
9 years ago

These weird buildings are too alienated from basic architectural norms and... have become super-sized art installations that jump on the desire and vanity bandwagon.

– Cheng Taining

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that “Image is Everything,” also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

– Walter Raleigh

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

– Thomas Wolfe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

added by anonymous
9 years ago

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

– Christina Rossetti

added by anonymous
9 years ago

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

– Swami Krishnananda

added by anonymous
9 years ago

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan