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Cantante, compositora, modelo y actriz canadiense (1959–2016)
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Join the room“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”
“… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?”
“Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;...”
“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?”
“Vanity, like laudanum, and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man, who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
“Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être.”
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Denise Katherine Matthews, conocida profesionalmente como Vanity, fue una cantante, compositora, bailarina, modelo y actriz canadiense. Conocida por su imagen como símbolo sexual en la década de 1980, en la de 1990 renunció a su carrera como Vanity y se convirtió en evangelista.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Vanity: excessive concern for one's own perfection · painting by Titian in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich · defunct American specialty chain of fashion retailers · 2002 studio album by Eighteen Visions
