Comments on: The Beautiful People http://tleaves.com/2006/06/01/the-beautiful-people/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laura http://tleaves.com/2006/06/01/the-beautiful-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 Laura Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:52:33 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=628#comment-2926 There is no substitute for good taste - except one: inimitable personal style. There are people who dress very strangely, but they are being themselves and no one but. (ex: Johnny Depp, Cher) Then there are people who can carry off damn near anything because they carry themselves all "god-damn-I-look-AWESOME". (ex: George Clooney, Jerry Hall) And then there are the clones. Maybe they dress themselves, maybe they have a stylist - who knows? But they look, not like they are themselves, but like they are playing a role. Sometimes, they fear being excluded if they wear the wrong thing. Give me personality any day. If you have personality, it's easy to develop yourself a style: you just need to figure out what clothes fit your skin. (OK. Maybe that's not easy. But that's what people like me exist for: to drag people who need help in that area to stores and figure it out.) There is no substitute for good taste – except one: inimitable personal style.

There are people who dress very strangely, but they are being themselves and no one but. (ex: Johnny Depp, Cher)

Then there are people who can carry off damn near anything because they carry themselves all “god-damn-I-look-AWESOME”. (ex: George Clooney, Jerry Hall)

And then there are the clones. Maybe they dress themselves, maybe they have a stylist – who knows? But they look, not like they are themselves, but like they are playing a role. Sometimes, they fear being excluded if they wear the wrong thing.

Give me personality any day. If you have personality, it’s easy to develop yourself a style: you just need to figure out what clothes fit your skin. (OK. Maybe that’s not easy. But that’s what people like me exist for: to drag people who need help in that area to stores and figure it out.)

]]> By: Cousin-curious http://tleaves.com/2006/06/01/the-beautiful-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2925 Cousin-curious Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:50:02 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=628#comment-2925 Style is subjective. Cash is a scalar. You might not be able to convince people that your clothes are cool, but nobody can doubt the numbers on your bank statement. The people who I've seen lose the most respect for money are those who aren't making what they are worth and don't want the stress of fixing that. Money changes everything, love changes everything, and kids change everything. Ugly is also subjective. Do you really want to know what would happen if you went face-to-face with those rich people on amihotornot.com? Don't say things because they make you feel good. Find the problems, the root problems, and try to solve them. Try to get other people interested in solving them. Hubris kills through indifference. Style is subjective. Cash is a scalar. You might not be able to convince people that your clothes are cool, but nobody can doubt the numbers on your bank statement.

The people who I’ve seen lose the most respect for money are those who aren’t making what they are worth and don’t want the stress of fixing that.

Money changes everything, love changes everything, and kids change everything.

Ugly is also subjective. Do you really want to know what would happen if you went face-to-face with those rich people on amihotornot.com?

Don’t say things because they make you feel good. Find the problems, the root problems, and try to solve them. Try to get other people interested in solving them. Hubris kills through indifference.

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