Flawed Quotes

• For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

  Christopher Nolan

  Taken, Mean, Bridges

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

  Winona Ryder

  Flaws, I've Learned

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• Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting

  Satyajit Ray

  Cutting, Editing, Finals

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

  Gray Davis

  Law, Pay, Energy

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• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  Patrick Stewart

  Civilization, Arrogance, May

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

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• As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Religious, Believe, Views

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  Dan Simmons

  Trust, Art, Believe

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• We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

  Barack Obama

  People, Grace, Helping

  "President Obama Says: 'We achieve salvation through the grace of God'". blogs.cbn.com. September 28, 2010.

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• By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Flaws, Young

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• When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Strong, Perfect, Negative

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• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Hurt, Party, Flaws

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• I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

  George A. Romero

  Guy, Good Guy, Flaws

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• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Fall, People, Weakness

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  California, Firsts, Flaws

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• All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

  Marguerite Young

  May, Flaws, Creatures

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• Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

  Andrew Vachss

  Hero, People, Journalism

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• Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

  Gray Davis

  Lines, Flaws, Plant

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• I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

  Tom Berenger

  Character, People, Perfect

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

  Alice Walker

  Mom, Mother, I Can

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• It's fun to play people who are flawed.

  Brad Garrett

  Fun, Play, People

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• I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Men, People, Actors

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

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• But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

  Adam Schiff

  Intelligence Gathering, Flaws, Sept 11

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• Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

  John Conyers

  Country, Hard Work, Suffering

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• Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

  Andrew Card

  Country, Kyoto, World

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