Character Flaws Quotes

• To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

  Ryan Coogler

  Real, Character, Flaws

  "Sundance 2013: Director Ryan Coogler Talks FRUITVALE, His Connection to the Story, Why It’s Important, Participating in the Sundance Lab & More". Interview With Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. January 24, 2013.

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Character, Artist, Flaws

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

  Mardy Grothe

  Character, Simple, Flaws

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• While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, People, May

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.90, Penguin

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• I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Beautiful, Character, Flaws

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• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Character, Dishonesty

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• All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Character, Intimate Relationships

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• I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hate, Character, Facts

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• No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Character

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• Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Character, Nfl

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• I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Real, Character

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• Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

  Richard Marcinko

  Character, Counter Attack, Flaws

  Richard Marcinko (2005). “Vengeance”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Humanity, Tragedy

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.200, Penguin

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• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  Barbara Holland

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Single Mom

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.

  James Redford

  Character, Issues, Flaws

  " 20 Must-See Docs Making Their TV Premieres This October" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 2, 2012.

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• It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

  Richard Russo

  Character, Simple, Law

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.254, Atlantic Books

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• It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Character, Adults, Flaws

  "Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on why ‘Margaret’ shouldn’t be perfect" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. July 10, 2012.

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• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

  John Green

  Character, Flaws, These Days

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

  Andy Rooney

  Character, Serious, Flaws

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• By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

  Harvey Mackay

  Character, Leader, Arrogance

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• Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.

  L. Todd Rose

  Senior, Girlfriend, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

  Pat Buchanan

  Heart, Character, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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