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Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Hugh Mackay

Someone, Person, Actually

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal

God, Nobody, Line

Nature is perfect.
William Shatner

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn vos Savant

Freedom, America, Between

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Die, Place

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Jerry Saltz

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
Kathy Ireland

Life, Work, Design

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

Happiness, Within, Theory

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
Emma Watson

Change, Great, Person

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Regret, Before

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder

Feeling, Human, Confused

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
Neal Schon

Time, Down, Here

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Lost, Different

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

After, Cannot, Means

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
Robin Cook

Until, Gave, Iraq

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
Jeff Bridges

Down, Before, Either

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
Drew Barrymore

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
Drew Barrymore

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
Jeff Bridges

Pretty, Far, Critical

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Thomas de Quincey

May, State, Ideal

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born

Success, God, Fair

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
Eric Cantona

Good, Important, Someone

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Together, Create

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy, Destiny, Chance

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Tre Cool

Future, School, Why

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.
Selena Gomez

Cool, Worry, Guy

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe

Sunshine, Gone, Shadows

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.
Christopher Hitchens

May, Why, Often

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
Howard Dean

Person, Sometimes, Trouble

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager

Society, Greatest, Evil

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