Perfect Quotes - Page 6

• I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Work, Men, Federalist

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.435

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• Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rain, Done, Watches

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Morning, Wine, Skins

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• I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Mean, Example, Capes

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• For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

  Salma Hayek

  Jobs, Six Months, Four

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Thinking, Soul

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Joy, Heaven, Craving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

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• I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

  Hugh Hefner

  Play, Would Be, Quitting

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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, Healthy, Vigor

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Acting, Actors, Idiot

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• Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

  Carolina Herrera

  Perfection, Doe

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Grace, World, Path

  "Siddhartha".

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• Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Good Life, Military

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Marijuana, Simple

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• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Thinking, Can Do

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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Life And Death, Decision

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• I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cutting, Cures, Sore Throat

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• 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, Normal, Culture

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

  Tom Holt

  Tea, Style, Lasts

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• I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Thinking, World

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  Karen Horney

  Funny, Life, Witty

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