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There are more than 700,000 pageants in America each year<br> "100,000 children under the age of twelve enter beauty pageants in America every year" Pageant Magazine <br> Before becoming a talk show host, Oprah Winfrey won the 1971 Miss Fire Prevention pageant in Nashville<br> "I think it's always best to be who you are" Halle Berry Miss Ohio 1986 <br> "Only do what your heart tells you" Princess Diana <br> "Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies" Gore Vidal <br> "Competition is for dogs and horses" Geri Halliwell <br> "Marry Prince William? I would love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?" Britney Spears<br> "Miss Colombia's talent performance will include swallowing 50 bags of heroin" David Letterman<br> "Other pageants are looking for a model, but Miss America is looking for a role model" Miss America website<br> "Do you have to be skinny to win? It's brains that matter not beauty" Miss Maya Pageant FAQ <br> "A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" Jane Wagner <br> "Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing" Mary Quant <br> "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" Shakespeare, Henry IV <br> P. T. Barnum staged the first beauty pageant in 1854. He previously held dog, baby, and bird beauty contests<br> "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in it's loyalty to each other" Mario Puzo<br> "The all American boy prefers beauty to brains because he sees better than he thinks" Farrah Fawcett-Majors <br> "Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures" Helmut Newton<br> "As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work" Katharine Hepburn <br>
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