I wasn't elected Brooklyn borough president to do nothing, and I certainly wasn't chosen for my good looks.
There are the flashes of self-deprecation ("You didn't elect me for my good looks and charm").
"I know my limitations," he said, and added, "I haven't gotten where I am by my good looks, my athletic ability, my great brain, my oratorical skills".
That's why Mick Jones had me in the band - not for my good looks.
"It's not just because of my good looks," he said with a laugh.
A combination of looks and riches always attracts problems, so I am a victim of my good looks and riches.
He responded with a jocular acknowledgment that back then, "I thought my good looks and athletic ability would carry me through".
He said he was pleased to provide his official synthesized voice to give Redmayne "a bit of a boost in his efforts to win an Oscar" and joked: "Unfortunately Eddie did not inherit my good looks".
I picture the cross-burners, the baying homicidal crowds in Alabama — and myself, parting the human mass as if it were the Red Sea, sending everyone into a trance of good will with my courage, my good looks, my compelling speech on why all men are brothers.
"I know my limitations," he said, and added, "I haven't gotten where I am by my good looks, my athletic ability, my great brain, my oratorical skills". Reid is a Mormon, and differs with most of his Democratic colleagues on social issues.
"It must have been for my good looks".
