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That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
Gloria Gaynor
Insecurity
,
Find
,
Why
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Jean-Luc Godard
Feeling
,
Place
,
Wanted
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
Vidal Sassoon
Woman
,
Learned
,
Put
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides
Law
,
Far
,
Possible
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth
Life
,
Conscience
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
Lou Reed
Great
,
Doubt
,
Night
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
Lou Reed
Night
,
Energy
,
Magic
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
Lou Reed
Trying
,
Moment
,
Possible
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
Mike Myers
Character
,
Why
,
Strange
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
Arthur Smith
Sky
,
Trees
,
Clouds
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.
Eric Liu
America
,
College
,
Whatever
I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.
Russell Crowe
Life
,
Time
,
Good
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston
Work
,
Yourself
,
Honest
As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.
Marlee Matlin
School
,
Book
,
Words
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Lin Yutang
Good
,
Traveller
I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.
Curt Schilling
Morning
,
Job
,
Nothing
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
Rachael Ray
Food
,
End
,
Sometimes
I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
Julius Erving
Time
,
Try
,
Spend
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Joan D. Vinge
Through
,
Here
,
Wanted
I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
Nicki Minaj
Happy
,
Person
,
Everything
The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
Rainn Wilson
Dad
,
Learned
,
Actually
In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
Ayelet Waldman
Children
,
Everyone
,
Firm
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
Ayelet Waldman
Family
,
Husband
,
Children
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.
Ayelet Waldman
Life
,
Care
,
End
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
Buddy Guy
Why
,
Same
,
Keep
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
Rihanna
Hard
,
Culture
,
Growing
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
Humility
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner
Humility
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
Andrew Weil
Human
,
Ignore
,
Sense
I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
Fergie
Music
,
Until
,
Ideas
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