“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“After [facial] surgery, [the patients] were perceived as being more intelligent, more friendly, more honest, less violent — and yet we hadn’t operated on their intellect or their character.”
— Iain Hutchison
“We only see mirror images of ourselves, and we only see ourselves in freeze-frame photographic images that capture a mere fraction of the time that we live.”
— Iain Hutchison
“If you spend five minutes with somebody, you start looking beyond their facial appearance.”
— Iain Hutchison
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