But his hands were the most beautiful hands I've ever seen.

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He has eyes like George Clooney and beautiful hands.

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At his peak, Jones was beautiful: the fastest hands and feet since an early Muhammad Ali, the knockout power of Tommy Hearns, more angles than Pythagoras, the reflexes of featherweight legend Willie Pep - so quick, you couldn't hit him with a handful of sugar.

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In an interview with National Public Radio in 1987, Rostropovich recalled a conversation with his mother, describing, in his heavy accent, his hands as a beautiful gift.

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But the flight to American suburbs has left once-beautiful homes and buildings in the hands of the poor who lack the resources to renovate them.

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We probably will return to the U.S. at some point. (The pull of family is strong.) For now, we will continue to explore this beautiful country, and get my hands as dirty as possible.

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The beautiful thing about an electoral democracy is that the citizens have the future in their hands.

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In 2011, for his "Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting, " he used hundreds of black Panerai watch faces, without their hands, to create a spin painting for the "O'Clock" exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

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